Diminution is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DIMINUTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of diminishing
• the shortening of the time values of notes in a melodic part.
• a reduction in the size, extent, or importance of something
• The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation or increase.
• The act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement.
• Omission, inaccuracy, or defect in a record.
• In counterpoint, the imitation of, or reply to, a subject, in notes of half the length or value of those the subject itself.
• change toward something smaller or lower
• the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original)
• the act of decreasing or reducing something
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act, process, or an instance of diminishing; decrease

Words related to DIMINUTION

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Words that contain DIMINUTION

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How to use DIMINUTION in a sentence

• But it was not only by the diminution of her territory that Carthage suffered injury.
• Another rest and another round went by, with no further damage to Joe and no diminution of strength on the part of Ponta.
• The diminution of the Window-Tax made light and ventilation possible.
• He felt no diminution of his affection for him, and was sincerely grieved to find that he was so little capable of serving him.
• The ruin and misery which the South is preparing for itself in every way is incalculable and incredible, and yet there is no diminution of desperation.
• It will nevertheless operate in causing some diminution, as circuitous channels render goods more difficult to be introduced, and consequently dearer to the consumers.
• That measures be proposed for preventing their diminution, and also their currency, and that of any others, when diminished.
• It yet remains to bend the obstinate resistance of Serbia, and to effect a diminution of her demands.
• It is the function of a skilled physician to determine which constituent of his patient’s body hath suffered diminution, which hath been augmented.
• And the way to secure this diminution is to prevent reproduction by parents whose offspring would almost certainly be undesirable in character.
• As we pass higher up the animal scale, we find the number of eggs or young more and more reduced, and the diminution of their number compensated for by parental protection.
• Some of the dancers dropped out from weariness, which caused diminution in some of the sets.
• In Cases where there is little else expected, but the Pleasure of the Ears and Eyes, the least Diminution of that Pleasure is the highest Offence.
• No desire for such a diminution had been manifested, so long as the money was supposed to be likely to remain in the treasury.
• Here is indeed the great difference between tastes, when men come to compare the excess or diminution of things which are judged by degree and not by measure.
• Nor is it easy, when such a difference arises, to settle the point, if the excess or diminution be not glaring.
• At this rate of diminution, a glacier, even one thousand feet in thickness, could not advance during a single century without being exhausted.
• Poverty is a relative quality, like cold and heat, which are but the increase or the diminution in our own sensations.
• The enthusiasm of the men had suffered no diminution during the days of waiting.
• It is almost impossible that he should not feel a diminution of his dignity and importance as a man.
• All wore the aspect of plenty, and an hospitality that feared neither want nor diminution.
• I lament that there should be any diminution of number among those who have done so much good in the world, and who have so justly obtained the reputation of a moral people.
• The losses threatened by such competition are sought to be averted by the diminution of production.

Similar words containing DIMINU without suffix tion

diminuendo14 diminutive16 diminuendos15 diminutions14 diminutival17 diminutives17 diminuendoes16 diminutively21 diminutiveness20 diminutivenesse21 diminutivenesses22

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