fewness
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of fewness
before 900; Middle English fewenesse, Old English fēawnes. See few, -ness
Example Sentences
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The size of the army and the fewness of the roads did that.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
They are conspicuously contracted in the fewness of the witnesses which they deem worthy of credence.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon
Hence, the investigator is almost overwhelmed by the difficulty of his task and the fewness of his certain results.
From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Roy Wood Sellars
The author should, perhaps, apologize for the fewness of the citations from other works which this volume contains.
From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by John Bates Clark
Everywhere is noticeable an enormous disproportion between the numbers of adults and children—a feature, in view of the fewness of the former, that argues badly for a much longer continuance of the race.
From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by C. Boden Kloss
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