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minuteness

[ UK /ma‍ɪnjˈuːtnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the property of being very small in size
    hence the minuteness of detail in the painting
  2. great precision; painstaking attention to details
    he examined the essay with the greatest minuteness

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  • 'Our Village 'than of' Rienzi, 'and writes prose better than poetry, and transcends rather in Dutch minuteness and high finishing, than in Italian ideality and passion. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • 'Rienzi,' and writes prose better than poetry, and transcends rather in Dutch minuteness and high finishing, than in Italian ideality and passion. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
  • This was the most she could pull off—the smallness of the crime, the minuteness of the act itself—and yet, so fearsome the punishment.
  • John Stuart Mill remarked that Grote's History was written ‘with the precision and minuteness of one who neither desires nor expects that anything will be taken upon trust’.
  • 'limitation of abode,' and the 'minuteness' ascribed to Brahman, are merely for the purpose of meditation. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
  • No: I could not but smile through my chafe: For the fellow lay safe As his mates do, the midge and the nit, ---Through minuteness, to wit. ...
  • he examined the essay with the greatest minuteness
  • The impressions must have been deep, since, writing in advanced age, he describes their personal appearance and their different idiosyncrasies with a minuteness which is at the same time a remarkable testimony to his precocious powers of observation. The Youth of Goethe
  • The more remote and antitypical event, however, namely, Messiah's coming, is that to which he always hastens, and which he describes with far more minuteness than he does the nearer type; for example, Cyrus (compare Isa 45: 1 with Isa 53: 1-12). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Letter of his to any member of his Family (and he wrote to one or other of them almost every day) in which he does not refer specifically to her state of health; and when she is at all seriously ill he gives details of her symptoms with a minuteness which is quite pathetic. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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