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Proust had to outgrow the habits of diminutiveness, without sacrificing a love of nuance and detail, to become himself.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 3, 2015

She had dark, flashing eyes, pearly teeth, full ruby lips and feet and hands that were of fairylike diminutiveness, as well as miracles of grace and dainty shapeliness.

From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Flagg, Edmund

They belong to what is sometimes known as Micronesia, from the extreme diminutiveness of the land masses.

From Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by White, Trumbull

It presented its side and gable to the public road; hence its apparent diminutiveness.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

The diminutiveness of these small rooms admitted of their being infinitely multiplied.

From The Wonders of Pompeii by Monnier, Marc