minuityとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

minuity (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 minuities)

1. A trifle; a thing of little importance or worth; something small.
   • 1612 Thomas Shelton, Cervantes Saavedra's (M. de) History of Don Quixote 1.3.6.174:

     I would not have my soule suffer in the other world for such a minuity as is thy wages.

2. Smallness; meanness.
   • 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two World Systems (Dialogue 2):

     The space of the reversion of the project to the circumference is reduced to the ultimate minuity, which is when the moveable resteth upon the circumference in the very point of contact.

参照

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “minuity”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.