fewness
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of fewness
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.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
Now one dissolves itself on account of the fewness of its members; and now a new one shows itself.
From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt
The huskies makes wolf songs all about the fewness of fish, and we'd hear mother give father a piece of her mind.
From A Man in the Open by Roger Pocock
They on the hill, which were not yet come to blows, perceiving the fewness of their enemies, came down amain.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
The influence of those few was great in proportion to their fewness probably, quite as much as to their merit as philosophers.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
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