Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A lessening; diminution; decrease.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A lessening; diminution; decrease.
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- noun A
lessening ;diminution ;decrease .
Etymologies
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Latin imminutio, from imminuere, imminutum, to lessen; prefix im- in + minuere.
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Examples
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The Queen, missing of the men, was very curious to learn the truth, but at last it was whispered out; she sware by God's death, it was fit that some one or other should take him down and teach him better manners, otherwise there would be no rule with him; and here I note the imminution of my lord's friendship with Mountjoy, which the Queen herself did then conjure.
FRAGMENTA REGALIA Hentzner, Paul & Naunton, Robert 1641
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