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A little or petty sect. "Some new sect or sectiuncle." J. Martineau.

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  • SECTIUNCLE
    A little or petty sect. "Some new sect or sectiuncle." J. Martineau.
  • LITTLENESS
    The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
  • PETTYWHIN
    The needle furze. See under Needle.
  • LITTLE-EASE
    An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
  • PETTY
    Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince. Denham. Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all. Milton. Petty averages. See under Average. -- Petty cash, money expended or received in small
  • PETTYCHAPS
    Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinæ, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler .
  • LITTLE
    place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is
  • DO-LITTLE
    One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
  • BELITTLE
    To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. T. Jefferson.

 

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