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But besides these minute separate details, how did I first become conscious of what was always there—her astonishing beauty?
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minute = small
Vanessa, under the eye of Val Prinsep, or Mr Ouless, R.A. or occasionally of the great Sargent himself, made those minute pencil drawings of Greek statues which she brought home and fixed with a spray of odd smelling mixture; or painted a histrionic male model rather like Sir Henry Irving in oils.
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minute = carefully detailed
But if father had the larger lines of the age stamped on him, George filled them in with a crisscross, with a crowquill etching of the most minute details.

minute = small
And so, while father pre-served the framework of 1860, George filled in the framework with all kinds of minutely-teethed saws;

minutely = in a small way

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

Can I remember ever being alone with her for more than a few minutes?†
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And so I did not get from him any minute comments; but felt rather that Shakespeare was to him his other world; the place where hegot the measure of the daily world.†

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.