All 13 Uses

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The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
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It is an effect of detail, of the minutest; though, if one were in this connexion to say all, one would express the hope that the general, the ampler air of the modest monument still survives.
Chpt Pref.

minutest = smallest
She had played no social part as mistress of Gardencourt, and it was not to be supposed that, in the surrounding country, a minute account should be kept of her comings and goings.
Chpt 7 *

minute = detailed
He sat in a complicated mechanical chair, at the open window of his room, looking westward over the park and the river, with his newspapers and letters piled up beside him, his toilet freshly and minutely made, and his smooth, speculative face composed to benevolent expectation.
Chpt 13

minutely = with careful attention to detail
She has travelled over the whole American continent and can at least find her way about this minute island.
Chpt 13 *

minute = small

Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:

Isabel delayed for some minutes to go to him; she moved about the room with a new sense of complications.†
Chpt 4
Her host's brother, the Vicar, had come to luncheon, and Isabel had had five minutes' talk with him—time enough to institute a search for a rich ecclesiasticism and give it up as vain.†
Chpt 9
Isabel walked on again; she was silent for some minutes.†
Chpt 12
Isabel listened with extreme respect to this admonition, but she said after a minute: "I must tell you that what I shall think about is some way of letting you know that what you ask is impossible—letting you know it without making you miserable."†
Chpt 12
Pray go on, and in another ten minutes I shall begin to laugh.†
Chpt 15
It was not for some ten minutes that she rose from her knees, and even when she came back to the sitting-room her tremor had not quite subsided.†
Chpt 17 *
She might have desired for some minutes to place it.†
Chpt 25
This fine specimen of that great class seated himself near our young lady, and in the course of five minutes he had asked her several questions, taken rather at random and to which, as he put some of them twice over, he apparently somewhat missed catching the answer; had given her too some information about himself which was not wasted upon her calmer feminine sense.†
Chpt 27
I may add that when I came upon you a few minutes since, without the smallest idea of seeing you, I was, upon my honour, in the very act of wishing I knew where you were.†
Chpt 27

Definitions:

(1) (minute as in: minute size)
small, exceptionally small, or insignificant
(2) (minute as in: minute description)
detailed (including even small considerations); and/or careful (done with care)
(3) (minutes as in: keep the minutes)
a written record of what happened at a meeting
(4) (meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus)
Much more commonly, minute and minutes refer to a period of time lasting 60 seconds.

Less commonly, they refer to a measurement of angle where 60 minutes make up a single degree, and where a right angle has 90 degrees and a circle has 360 degrees.