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Definition of Tinniest
1. tinny [adj] - See also: tinny
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tinniest
Literary usage of Tinniest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. by Edward Gibbon (1811)
"... were tinniest illustrious, by their personal merit, as well as by their vicinity
to the Roman province*. These domestic conquests, which increased tht ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"which at one stroke drove from the face of earth two of tinniest powerful races
of its inhabitants, sweeping with them many smaller forms, ..."
3. Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises by William Cushing (1885)
"SX'., at first under ¡ the tinniest signature ot " A Friend," , nnd, when tin*
became known, uii'ler , those initials nf her nanu\ L., MR -U. /Л Li/.-c. ..."
4. The Christian Examiner (1845)
"... to perfect the fringe of the lowliest leaflet, and to ripen the tinniest seed,
so be thy least act pregnant with a godlike greatness of devotion. ..."
5. Guide to Printed Books and Manuscripts Relating to English and Foreign by George Gatfield (1892)
"The whole embodying a numerous selection of Descents of Families the most
distinguished in English History, and tinniest celebrated in the Annals of English ..."
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