Both Uses of
petty
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- My fate cries out, And makes each petty artery in this body As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.†
Scene 1.4 *
- The cease of majesty Dies not alone; but like a gulf doth draw What's near it with it: it is a massy wheel, Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things Are mortis'd and adjoin'd; which, when it falls, Each small annexment, petty consequence, Attends the boisterous ruin.†
Scene 3.3
Definition:
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(petty as in: a petty crime) of less importance -- at times implying insignificance