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Definition of Exiguously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exiguously
Literary usage of Exiguously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"... faculties, reasoning, conation imagination, impulse, instinct, feelings,
etc., is clearly and faithfully and sometimes a little exiguously told. ..."
2. Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse (1922)
"... those of his blossoming period from 1861 to 1868, are very exiguously represented.
No scrap of The Queen Mother has turned up, nor of the published form ..."
3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"After the first change they have the form and all the parts which characterize
the adult animal, but more exiguously proportioned; their antennae and feet ..."
4. The Complete Oarsman by Rudolf Chambers Lehmann (1908)
"His simple raiment took my eyes : No fancy duds he sported, He had his rather
lengthy thighs exiguously "shorted." A scarf about his neck he threw ..."
5. Hermais: A Study in Comparative Esthetics by Colin McAlpin (1915)
"And while this dictum may be but exiguously true of painting, we have come now
to see that it is not only theoretically but absolutely and literally true of ..."
6. Chronicles of the House of Borgia by Frederick Rolfe (1901)
"... despoiled, and exiguously persecuted, all who bore the name of, or were
connected with, The Borgia. This is an extremely probable tale. ..."
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