littleness
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“This logic of littleness is the church’s true strength,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025
These postulates take form in the attributes that seem so clearly to characterize littleness:
From Salon • Sep. 10, 2023
“God loves littleness, and through it he loves to accomplish great things,” Francis told priests, nuns and bishops from around the region during a Saturday encounter in the cathedral.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 3, 2023
That leaves five Little Women movies—1933, 1949, 1994, 2018, and 2019—each containing four little women, for a total of twenty Little Women little women, of various degrees of littleness.
From Slate • Dec. 29, 2019
They elevated me from all littleness of feeling, and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillised it.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
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