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parvitude rare.|ˈpɑːvɪtjuːd|
[f. L. parv-us small, after magnitude. (The L. derivative was parvitās.)]
Littleness, smallness.
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 34 Magnitude, Parvitude, and Number. 1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. 59 Because of its parvitude it cannot reach to the same floor with them. 1788T. Taylor Proclus I. 89 They differ in magnitude and parvitude. 1903Edin. Rev. Jan. 59 A continued preference for the slum..would confess parvitude in the point of view.
†b. An absolutely small or minute thing, an atom. Obs.
1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. (1713) 189 These perfect Parvitudes..which are so infinitely subtile, that no Touch can perceive them. 1659― Immort. Soul ii. i. 115 By a meer point of Matter I doe not mean a meer Mathematicall point, but a perfect Parvitude, or the least reality of which Matter can consist. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 777 To suppose Incorporeal Substances, Unextended and Indivisible, is to make them Absolute Parvitudes. |