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fewness

[fyoo-nis]

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noun

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Origin of fewness¹

before 900; Middle English fewenesse, Old English fēawnes. See few, -ness

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The size of the army and the fewness of the roads did that.

They on the hill, which were not yet come to blows, perceiving the fewness of their enemies, came down amain.

"Not many wise," said Paul, and their fewness has left an impress on the history of the church.

They are conspicuously contracted in the fewness of the witnesses which they deem worthy of credence.

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