diminutionn.

/dɪmɪˈnjuːʃən/

Forms: Middle English–1500s diminucion (also with y for i), diminicion, 1600s deminution, 1500s– diminution.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman diminuciun (a1300), French diminution = Provençal diminutio , Spanish diminucion , Portuguese diminuição , Italian diminuzione , < Latin dīminūtiōn-em later spelling of dēminūtiōn-em , noun of action fromdēminuĕre to lessen. Classical Latin analogies would give the form deminution : see diminish v., diminue v.

a. The action of diminishing or making less; the process of diminishing or becoming less; reduction in magnitude or degree; lessening, decrease.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun]

waningc900

littlingOE

lessingc1350

abating1370

diminutionc1374

minishinga1382

decrease1383

remissiona1398

shrinkinga1398

decreasing1398

adminishing?c1400

abbreviation?a1425

lessening?a1425

minoration?a1425

disincrease1430

abatement1433

restrictiona1450

batea1475

diminuation1477

limitation1483

abate1486

minute1495

minishment1533

mitigation1533

diminishinga1535

extenuation1542

slacking1542

reduce1549

diminishment1551

perditionc1555

debatementa1563

rebatement1573

obstriction1578

imminution1583

contracting1585

contraction1589

rabate1589

rebating1598

retrenchmentc1600

decession1606

ravalling1609

reducement1619

decrement1621

bating1629

shrivellinga1631

decretion1635

dejection1652

abater1653

rolling back1658

limiting1677

batement1679

reduction1695

depression1793

downdraw1813

descent1832

decess1854

lowering1868

shrinkage1873

dégringolade1883

minification1894

degrowth1920

downrating1950

the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > [noun]

wanea1300

ravalling1609

extenuation1620

diminution1691

reduction1800

degrowth1920

attrition1924

downgrade1935

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 1286 (1335) To encrece or maken dyminucioun Of my langage.

1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 2 §6 Dymynucion of punysshment..shalbe had for women greate with child.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. xi. 163 Change by addition or diminution.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. iii. i. 213 The remainder can hardly beare such deminution, as all Armies are subiect vnto.

1682 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Rights Princes (new ed.) viii. 315 Rather than consent to the least diminution of that Right.

1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. cvii Enlargements or Diminutions of Wharfs or Banks.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 517. ¶1 A Copy of his Letter, without any Alteration or Diminution.

1857 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. (ed. 3) II. 175 The Diminution of the Obliquity of the Ecliptic.

b. Apparent lessening, as by distance. ? Obsolete.

ΚΠ

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. iii. 18 To looke vpon him, till the diminution Of space, had pointed him sharpe as my Needle.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 369 From human sight So farr remote, with diminution seen.

†2.

a. Representation of something as less than it is; extenuation. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > [noun] > underestimation or undervaluing > understatement or underplaying

diminution1303

meiosis1550

extenuation1589

liptote1589

meiosis1642

litote1645

litotes1656

understatement1799

underplaying1896

1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 12416 Ȝyt þer ys an enchesun Ys kallede ‘dymynucyun’, On englys hyt ys to mene To make þy synne lytyl to seme.

b. as a figure in Rhetoric. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. O4, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Example..for diminution might be this..these I must confesse are iniuries to some, but vnto me they are trifles.

1659 O. Walker Some Instr. Art of Oratory 75 Gradation is by Oratours most-what observed, and the weightiest word said last: or, in diminutions, the contrary.

†3. Lessening of honour or reputation; derogation, depreciation, belittling. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > disparagement or depreciation > [noun]

detraction1340

misspeaking?a1425

lightlying1451

obtrectationa1500

derogation1520

disparaging1528

vilipending1566

detractation1570

detracting1572

disprize1575

downcrying1575

lessening1579

diminution1586

disparagement1591

disvalue1605

undervalue1615

disvaluation1617

decrying1633

undervaluation1635

disvaluinga1639

vilipendency1653

undervaluing1656

decry1686

depreciating1705

decrial1711

depreciation1790

subtraction1812

belittling1837

to give one a back-cap1883

marginalizing1977

trash talk1981

negging1996

1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. B6^v What approbations, diminutions, insinuations.

1599 Life Sir T. More in C. Wordsworth Eccl. Biog. (1853) II. 181 Under pardon of those saints..for I intend not the diminution of their glorious deaths.

1647 T. Fuller Cause Wounded Conscience xx. 149 A diminution to the majesty of God.

1649 Εἰκων Βασιλικη 49 I shall not much regard the worlds opinion or diminution of me.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 468. ⁋4 Thinking nothing a Diminution to me, but what argues a Depravity of my Will.

a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) II. 176 All that appeared..of diminution to the reputation..which his Lordship..had acquired.

†4. Partial deprivation, curtailment, abatement.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > loss > taking away > [noun] > action of depriving > partially

diminution1548

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lxx^v That we suffre harme or diminicion in person, estate, worship, or goodes.

1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. iv. 78 Untill it came to sentence of death, or diminution of member.

1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. i. 20 Had this been any injury or diminution to the rest?

5. Music.

a. The repetition of a subject (in contrapuntal writing) in notes of half or a quarter the length of the original: opposed to augmentation.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > movement of parts > specific

report1502

augmentationc1570

diminution1597

consecution1655

inversion1664

imitation1728

sequence1737

oblique motion1786

Rosalia1786

triple progression1786

parallel motion1864

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 24 Diminution is a certaine lessening or decreasing of the essential value of the notes and rests.

1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 48 Diminution..is the varying of Notes of the first quantity..or it is a certain cutting off of the measure.

1869 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Counterpoint xv. 104 [In] imitation by diminution..the consequent substitutes notes of smaller value for those proposed by the antecedent.

†b. The condition of being diminished (of an interval): see diminished adj. 4. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1614 T. Ravenscroft (title) A briefe Discourse of the true but neglected Vse of characterizing the Degrees by their perfection, imperfection and diminution, in measurable Musicke.

6. Heraldry. With earlier authors: The defacing of part of an escutcheon. By later writers said to be = difference n.¹

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > abatement or mark of dishonour > types of

delfc1500

gore1562

gusset1562

point in point1562

diminution1610

society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > alteration or addition

difference1425

differing1592

brisure1623

mark1631

diminution1787

1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie i. viii. 31 Diminution is a blemishing or defacing of some particular point..of the Escocheon, by reason of the imposition of some stainand colour thereupon.

1787 ‘M. A. Porny’ Elements Heraldry (ed. 4) Diminution, word sometimes used instead of Difference.

1830 T. Robson Brit. Herald III. Gloss. Diminution of Arms, an expression sometimes used..instead of differences, or, as the French call them, brisures..from the Latin diminutiones, lessenings, as showing a family to be less than the chief.

†7. Grammar. The formation of a diminutive word from a primitive. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [noun] > formation of diminutive

diminutiona1637

a1637 B. Jonson Eng. Gram. i. xi, in Wks. (1640) III The common Affection of Nounes is Diminution..The diminution of Substantives hath these foure divers terminations: Ell..Et..Ock..Ing..Diminution of Adjectives is in this one end, ish.

8. Law. An omission in the record of a case sent up by an inferior court to a superior, in proceedings for reversal of judgement.

ΚΠ

1614 Coke's Bk. of Entries f. 242/2 (margin) Le def. alleage diminution en le Here fac seisinam.

1614 Coke's Bk. of Entries f. 251^v/1 (margin) Diminution alledge per le def en les proclamations.

1658 H. Grimston tr. G. Croke Reports II. 597 After the Record certified, the Plaintiff in the Writ of Error alledges Diminution for want of an Original which was certified and entred.

1675 Jones's Reports 140 Car apres in nullo est Erratum plede, neque le Plaintiff neque le Defendant poient alledge diminution, car per le joinder ils allowe recorde.]

1708 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) 248 Diminution, is when the Plaintiff or Defendant in a Writ of Error alledges..that part of the Record remains in the Inferiour Court not certifyed, and prays that it be certifyed by Certiorari.

1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon

9. Architecture. The gradual decrease in diameter of the shaft of a column, etc.; the tapering of a column or other part of a building; also, the amount of this tapering in the whole length.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > shaft of column > narrowing towards top

diminishing1563

contraction1624

contracture1664

diminution1706

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Diminution..in Architecture, the lessening of a Pillar by little and little from the Base to the Top.

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture II. 20/1 The diameter of the lower diminution.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Gothic architects..observe neither Diminution, nor Swelling: Their Columns are perfectly Cylindrical.

1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 356 [The] turret..ends with a fine diminution.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. iii. i. 687 The diminution or tapering form given to a column..sometimes commences from the foot of the shaft, sometimes from a quarter or one third of its height.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. iii. i. 692 Vitruvius in this order [sc. the Tuscan] forms the columns six diameters high, and makes their diminution one quarter of the diameter.

10. Cytology. [ < French diminution (V. Herla 1895, in Arch. de Biol. XIII. 485).] The loss or expulsion, during the embryogenesis of certain organisms, of some chromosome material from the nuclei of cells that go to form somatic tissue.

ΚΠ

1925 E. B. Wilson Cell (ed. 3) iv. 326 In these cases..the process of diminution is somehow connected with the segregation of germ-cells from somatic cells.

1942 Nature 17 Jan. 67/2 In Sorghum we know that the chromosomes which undergo ‘diminution’ are in fact dispensable not only in parts of the plant but also in parts of the species.

1965 C. D. Darlington Cytol. ii. iii. 658 Coordinated reactions of centromeres, heterochromatin and cytoplasm are no doubt responsible for diminution.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	diminution
释义	diminutionn. /dɪmɪˈnjuːʃən/ Forms: Middle English–1500s diminucion (also with y for i), diminicion, 1600s deminution, 1500s– diminution. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman diminuciun (a1300), French diminution = Provençal diminutio , Spanish diminucion , Portuguese diminuição , Italian diminuzione , < Latin dīminūtiōn-em later spelling of dēminūtiōn-em , noun of action fromdēminuĕre to lessen. Classical Latin analogies would give the form deminution : see diminish v., diminue v. 1. a. The action of diminishing or making less; the process of diminishing or becoming less; reduction in magnitude or degree; lessening, decrease. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] waningc900 littlingOE lessingc1350 abating1370 diminutionc1374 minishinga1382 decrease1383 remissiona1398 shrinkinga1398 decreasing1398 adminishing?c1400 abbreviation?a1425 lessening?a1425 minoration?a1425 disincrease1430 abatement1433 restrictiona1450 batea1475 diminuation1477 limitation1483 abate1486 minute1495 minishment1533 mitigation1533 diminishinga1535 extenuation1542 slacking1542 reduce1549 diminishment1551 perditionc1555 debatementa1563 rebatement1573 obstriction1578 imminution1583 contracting1585 contraction1589 rabate1589 rebating1598 retrenchmentc1600 decession1606 ravalling1609 reducement1619 decrement1621 bating1629 shrivellinga1631 decretion1635 dejection1652 abater1653 rolling back1658 limiting1677 batement1679 reduction1695 depression1793 downdraw1813 descent1832 decess1854 lowering1868 shrinkage1873 dégringolade1883 minification1894 degrowth1920 downrating1950 the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > [noun] wanea1300 ravalling1609 extenuation1620 diminution1691 reduction1800 degrowth1920 attrition1924 downgrade1935 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 1286 (1335) To encrece or maken dyminucioun Of my langage. 1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 2 §6 Dymynucion of punysshment..shalbe had for women greate with child. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iii. xi. 163 Change by addition or diminution. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. iii. i. 213 The remainder can hardly beare such deminution, as all Armies are subiect vnto. 1682 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Rights Princes (new ed.) viii. 315 Rather than consent to the least diminution of that Right. 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. cvii Enlargements or Diminutions of Wharfs or Banks. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 517. ¶1 A Copy of his Letter, without any Alteration or Diminution. 1857 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. (ed. 3) II. 175 The Diminution of the Obliquity of the Ecliptic. b. Apparent lessening, as by distance. ? Obsolete. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. iii. 18 To looke vpon him, till the diminution Of space, had pointed him sharpe as my Needle. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 369 From human sight So farr remote, with diminution seen. View more context for this quotation †2. a. Representation of something as less than it is; extenuation. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > [noun] > underestimation or undervaluing > understatement or underplaying diminution1303 meiosis1550 extenuation1589 liptote1589 meiosis1642 litote1645 litotes1656 understatement1799 underplaying1896 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 12416 Ȝyt þer ys an enchesun Ys kallede ‘dymynucyun’, On englys hyt ys to mene To make þy synne lytyl to seme. b. as a figure in Rhetoric. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. O4, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Example..for diminution might be this..these I must confesse are iniuries to some, but vnto me they are trifles. 1659 O. Walker Some Instr. Art of Oratory 75 Gradation is by Oratours most-what observed, and the weightiest word said last: or, in diminutions, the contrary. †3. Lessening of honour or reputation; derogation, depreciation, belittling. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > disparagement or depreciation > [noun] detraction1340 misspeaking?a1425 lightlying1451 obtrectationa1500 derogation1520 disparaging1528 vilipending1566 detractation1570 detracting1572 disprize1575 downcrying1575 lessening1579 diminution1586 disparagement1591 disvalue1605 undervalue1615 disvaluation1617 decrying1633 undervaluation1635 disvaluinga1639 vilipendency1653 undervaluing1656 decry1686 depreciating1705 decrial1711 depreciation1790 subtraction1812 belittling1837 to give one a back-cap1883 marginalizing1977 trash talk1981 negging1996 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. B6^v What approbations, diminutions, insinuations. 1599 Life Sir T. More in C. Wordsworth Eccl. Biog. (1853) II. 181 Under pardon of those saints..for I intend not the diminution of their glorious deaths. 1647 T. Fuller Cause Wounded Conscience xx. 149 A diminution to the majesty of God. 1649 Εἰκων Βασιλικη 49 I shall not much regard the worlds opinion or diminution of me. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 468. ⁋4 Thinking nothing a Diminution to me, but what argues a Depravity of my Will. a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) II. 176 All that appeared..of diminution to the reputation..which his Lordship..had acquired. †4. Partial deprivation, curtailment, abatement. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > loss > taking away > [noun] > action of depriving > partially diminution1548 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lxx^v That we suffre harme or diminicion in person, estate, worship, or goodes. 1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. iv. 78 Untill it came to sentence of death, or diminution of member. 1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. i. 20 Had this been any injury or diminution to the rest? 5. Music. a. The repetition of a subject (in contrapuntal writing) in notes of half or a quarter the length of the original: opposed to augmentation. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > movement of parts > specific report1502 augmentationc1570 diminution1597 consecution1655 inversion1664 imitation1728 sequence1737 oblique motion1786 Rosalia1786 triple progression1786 parallel motion1864 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 24 Diminution is a certaine lessening or decreasing of the essential value of the notes and rests. 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 48 Diminution..is the varying of Notes of the first quantity..or it is a certain cutting off of the measure. 1869 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Counterpoint xv. 104 [In] imitation by diminution..the consequent substitutes notes of smaller value for those proposed by the antecedent. †b. The condition of being diminished (of an interval): see diminished adj. 4. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1614 T. Ravenscroft (title) A briefe Discourse of the true but neglected Vse of characterizing the Degrees by their perfection, imperfection and diminution, in measurable Musicke. 6. Heraldry. With earlier authors: The defacing of part of an escutcheon. By later writers said to be = difference n.¹ ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > abatement or mark of dishonour > types of delfc1500 gore1562 gusset1562 point in point1562 diminution1610 society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > alteration or addition difference1425 differing1592 brisure1623 mark1631 diminution1787 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie i. viii. 31 Diminution is a blemishing or defacing of some particular point..of the Escocheon, by reason of the imposition of some stainand colour thereupon. 1787 ‘M. A. Porny’ Elements Heraldry (ed. 4) Diminution, word sometimes used instead of Difference. 1830 T. Robson Brit. Herald III. Gloss. Diminution of Arms, an expression sometimes used..instead of differences, or, as the French call them, brisures..from the Latin diminutiones, lessenings, as showing a family to be less than the chief. †7. Grammar. The formation of a diminutive word from a primitive. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [noun] > formation of diminutive diminutiona1637 a1637 B. Jonson Eng. Gram. i. xi, in Wks. (1640) III The common Affection of Nounes is Diminution..The diminution of Substantives hath these foure divers terminations: Ell..Et..Ock..Ing..Diminution of Adjectives is in this one end, ish. 8. Law. An omission in the record of a case sent up by an inferior court to a superior, in proceedings for reversal of judgement. ΚΠ 1614 Coke's Bk. of Entries f. 242/2 (margin) Le def. alleage diminution en le Here fac seisinam. 1614 Coke's Bk. of Entries f. 251^v/1 (margin) Diminution alledge per le def en les proclamations. 1658 H. Grimston tr. G. Croke Reports II. 597 After the Record certified, the Plaintiff in the Writ of Error alledges Diminution for want of an Original which was certified and entred. 1675 Jones's Reports 140 Car apres in nullo est Erratum plede, neque le Plaintiff neque le Defendant poient alledge diminution, car per le joinder ils allowe recorde.] 1708 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) 248 Diminution, is when the Plaintiff or Defendant in a Writ of Error alledges..that part of the Record remains in the Inferiour Court not certifyed, and prays that it be certifyed by Certiorari. 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 9. Architecture. The gradual decrease in diameter of the shaft of a column, etc.; the tapering of a column or other part of a building; also, the amount of this tapering in the whole length. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > shaft of column > narrowing towards top diminishing1563 contraction1624 contracture1664 diminution1706 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Diminution..in Architecture, the lessening of a Pillar by little and little from the Base to the Top. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture II. 20/1 The diameter of the lower diminution. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Gothic architects..observe neither Diminution, nor Swelling: Their Columns are perfectly Cylindrical. 1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 356 [The] turret..ends with a fine diminution. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. iii. i. 687 The diminution or tapering form given to a column..sometimes commences from the foot of the shaft, sometimes from a quarter or one third of its height. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. iii. i. 692 Vitruvius in this order [sc. the Tuscan] forms the columns six diameters high, and makes their diminution one quarter of the diameter. 10. Cytology. [ < French diminution (V. Herla 1895, in Arch. de Biol. XIII. 485).] The loss or expulsion, during the embryogenesis of certain organisms, of some chromosome material from the nuclei of cells that go to form somatic tissue. ΚΠ 1925 E. B. Wilson Cell (ed. 3) iv. 326 In these cases..the process of diminution is somehow connected with the segregation of germ-cells from somatic cells. 1942 Nature 17 Jan. 67/2 In Sorghum we know that the chromosomes which undergo ‘diminution’ are in fact dispensable not only in parts of the plant but also in parts of the species. 1965 C. D. Darlington Cytol. ii. iii. 658 Coordinated reactions of centromeres, heterochromatin and cytoplasm are no doubt responsible for diminution. 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