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
It may be seen judging by these letters, that there was not any other cause for the fewness of such but the full occupation of his time alluded to so frequently.
From The Letters of the Duke of Wellington to Miss J. 1834-1851 Edited by Extracts from the Diary of the Latter by Wellington, Duke of
The very fewness of their numbers proved it, else why should they too not have fallen away.
From To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
We are not able to give more than a biographical sketch, but the facts are so interesting, and above all so edifying, as will in some measure compensate for their fewness.
From The Life of Saint Bridget, Virgin and Abbess by Anonymous
Then the fewness of numbers began to tell, and, as always at points of junction between divisions, the Germans got through between the 7th and 19th, the 19th and 18th, and the 3d and 18th.
From Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various
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