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
The main fleet—three armored ships—on the north was thus used, although the blockade, from the fewness of available cruisers, was not at first extended beyond Cardenas.
From Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
His death might have been the conversion of thousands, of Callista; and the fewness of his days here would have been his claim to a blessed eternity hereafter.
From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by Newman, John Henry
No better proof need be adduced of the fewness of skilful shepherds, than the loss which every breeder of sheep sustains every year, especially in bad weather.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
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 Burgon, John William
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