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1647 J. Robotham Preciousnesse Christ unto Beleevers 176 Wee must take heed, that our pusility and dwarfishnesse in them [sc. heavenly affections] do not flow from a vicious and adulterate love.

1653 S. Fisher Παιδοβαπτιζοντες Παιδιζοντες: Baby-baptism 86 Some bodily blemishes as crookedness, dwarfishness, blindness, lameness.

1738 D. Hall Gen. Epist. to Friends (1740) 14 Whence proceeds also a Dwarfishness and Shortness in keeping up the several Branches of our Christian Testimony.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. xi. 237 Not but that the severity of heat or cold, may, in some measure, diminish the growth, and produce a dwarfishness of make.

1850 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. xii. 217 Written by a Miss Bronté, a clergyman's daughter, diminutive almost to dwarfishness.

1851 Morning Chron. 8 Feb. Mr. Roebuck remarked upon the immensity of Lord John Russell's premises compared with the dwarfishness of his practical conclusions.

1904 ‘A. Hope’ Double Harness xvii. 215 The little victory stood in its contemptible dwarfishness beside the magnitude of his great defeat.

1933 B. Gadelius Human Mentality xx. 478 Achondroplastic dwarfishness and ordinary dwarfishness..are considered recessive.

2003 Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News 18 Nov. 2 c/9 Nelson selected for richer color and shorter plants. ‘The main idea of the dwarfishness is to have a variety [sc. of grass] you don't have to mow as often.’