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Di*min"u*tive (?), a. [Cf. L. deminutivus, F. diminutif.] 1. Below the average size; very small; little.
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2. Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
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3. Tending to diminish. [R.]
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Diminutive of liberty. Shaftesbury.
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Di*min"u*tive, n. 1. Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.
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Such water flies, diminutives of nature. Shak.
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2. (Gram.) A derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet, lambkin.
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Babyisms and dear diminutives. Tennyson.
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&hand_; The word sometimes denotes a derivative verb which expresses a diminutive or petty form of the action, as scribble.
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