diminishment
diminishment noun: the act of diminishing; reducing in size, quantity, or quality.
Noun
diminishment (countable and uncountable, plural diminishments)
- The act of diminishing; reducing in size, quantity, or quality.
- They also shewed forth the letters which hee had sent to the Duke of Irelande, to leuie an armie vnto theyr destruction. Likewise the letters which the Frenche king had written to him conteyning a safe conducte for him to come into Fraunce, there to confyrme things to the diminishment of his honor...1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., “King Richard the seconde”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande, London: John Hunne, page 1037
- All great men possess in themselves the qualities which will certainly lay them open to censure and diminishment; but these inevitable deficiencies in the greatness of great men vary in the widest degree of variety.1902, G. K. Chesterton, “The Characteristics of Robert Louis Stevenson” in G. K. Chesterton and William Robertson Nicoll, Robert Louis Stevenson, London: Hodder and Stoughton, p. 9
- Synonyms:
- decline, diminution, lessening, reduction
Synonyms of diminishment
Forms of diminishment
| plural | diminishments |
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Origin of diminishment
From diminish + -ment.
Questions about diminishment
- What does diminishment mean?
- Diminishment means the act of diminishing; reducing in size, quantity, or quality.
- What part of speech is diminishment?
- Diminishment is a noun.
- What is the plural of diminishment?
- The plural of diminishment is diminishments.
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