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Slightness   Listen
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Slightness  n.  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Slightness" Quotes from Famous Books



... trickling down the shoulders of the sagamore, who, when he perceived that the eyes of Uncas dwelt too long on the sight, raised some water in the hollow of his hand, and, washing off the stain, was content to manifest, in this simple manner, the slightness of ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester

... the two groups, one within the house, the other without, is the only barrier to such an exhibition of the double resemblances as would clear up all difficulties immediately. Is the humor of the situation the better for this slightness of the barrier, or is it rendered altogether too unlikely by it? Notice also the narrow escapes from meeting and being seen together which masters and men are constantly making and the skill of the stage movements so that, for example, while one pair of twins is in the house, the other ...
— Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies • Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke



Words linked to "Slightness" :   slight, spareness, leanness, slimness, slenderness, triviality, thinness, delicacy, pettiness, joke



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