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quantulum

1. (obsolete) A very small amount.
   • 1832, The Quarterly Review (London) (volume 98, page 198)

     […] that a brave, vigorous, and consistent forwardness, guarded by just such a quantulum of tact as may save it from being signally offensive, will always ensure a certain degree of advancement; […]

   • 1845, Jared Sparks, ‎Edward Everett, ‎James Russell Lowell, The North American Review (volume 60, page 52)

     […] with a little French and a little Spanish, a quantulum of wayside knowledge gleaned from lecture-rooms, and a smattering of half a dozen branches of science, that might as well have been studied at a country academy.

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