parvituden.

1652 S. Henden Key of Scripture-prophecies 53 Their parvitude, secrecy, retired closures, their exquisite artifice seem to allude to such constitutions as consist of more choice and culled-out men.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 59 Because of its parvitude it cannot reach to the same floor with them.

1691 J. Dunton Voy. round World I. viii. sig. K The magnitude of Whores, and the parvitude, dwi[n]dlingness, or exiguity, of truly virtuous Creatures through this nasty stinking World.

1788 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. I. 89 They differ in magnitude and parvitude.

1850 Contrib. to Herography 48 The atoms of the universe must converge to a point, and being of infinite parvitude would constitute one simple, unextended monad.

1896 Amer. Math. Monthly 3 165 It becomes ever smaller and smaller, sinking below every assignable degree of parvitude.

1903 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 59 A continued preference for the slum..would confess parvitude in the point of view.

1934 A. E. Taylor tr. Plato Parmenides 85 Again, there is nothing than which bare magnitude is greater, except bare parvitude, and nothing than which parvitude is smaller, except bare magnitude.

1659 H. More Immortality of 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.

1662 H. More Conjectura Cabbalistica (new ed.) 141 in Coll. Several Philos. Writings (ed. 2) These perfect Parvitudes..which are so infinitely subtile, that no Touch can perceive them.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 777 To suppose Incorporeal Substances, Unextended and Indivisible, is to make them Absolute Parvitudes.

1709 T. Robinson Vindic. Mosaick Syst. 107 in Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland The most minute Parvitude cannot lie so close together but there will be Intervals.

1963 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 24 65 Plato's image of the winnowing-basket, like the sieve mentioned by Democritus, suggests that chaos consists of ‘parvitudes’.