All 4 Uses of
diminutive
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- The adjustment of the farmer's hazy conceptions of her charms to the portrait of herself she now presented him with was less a diminution than a difference.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- She seemed tall, but the pail was a small one, and the hedge diminutive; hence, making allowance for error by comparison with these, she could have been not above the height to be chosen by women as best.†
Chpt 1-3
- CHAPTER XXVI SCENE ON THE VERGE OF THE HAY-MEAD "Ah, Miss Everdene!" said the sergeant, touching his diminutive cap.†
Chpt 25-27
- "I don't want to repeat anything," said Liddy, with womanly dignity of a diminutive order; "but I don't wish to stay with you.†
Chpt 28-30
Definition:
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(diminutive) very small