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Word Meanings - DISQUANTITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To diminish the quantity of; to lessen. Shak.

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  • DIMINISH
    To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
  • DIMINISHER
    One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
  • LESSENER
    One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers .
  • QUANTITY
    1. The attribute of being so much, and not more or less; the property of being measurable, or capable of increase and decrease, multiplication and division; greatness; and more concretely, that which answers the question "How much"; measure in
  • DIMINISHABLE
    Capable of being diminished or lessened.
  • DIMINISHMENT
    Diminution. Cheke.
  • LESSEN
    To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, rank, fortune. Charity . . . shall lessen his punishment. Calamy. St. Paul chose to magnify his office
  • DIMINISHINGLY
    In a manner to diminish.
  • REDIMINISH
    To diminish again.
  • DISQUANTITY
    To diminish the quantity of; to lessen. Shak.
  • INDIMINISHABLE
    Incapable of being diminished. Milton.

 

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