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minuity en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A trifle; a thing of little importance or worth; something small.
    • I would not have my soule suffer in the other world for such a minuity as is thy wages. 1612 Thomas Shelton, Cervantes Saavedra's (M. de) History of Don Quixote 1.3.6.174
  2. (countable, uncountable) Smallness; meanness.
    • The space of the reversion of the project to the circumference is reduced to the ultimate minuity, which is when the moveable resteth upon the circumference in the very point of contact. 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two World Systems (Dialogue 2):

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