littleness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

LIT'TLENESS, noun 1. Smallness of size or bulk; as the littleness of the body or of an animal. 2. Meanness; want of grandeur; as littleness of conception. 3. Want of dignity. Contemplations on the majesty of God displayed in his works, may awaken in us a sense of our own littleness 4. Meanness; penuriousness.
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