narrownessn.

Brit.

/ˈnarəʊnəs/, U.S.

/ˈnɛroʊnəs/

Forms: Old English nearenes, Old English nearenis, Old English nearenys, Old English nearones, Old English nearonis, Old English nearonys, late Old English nearownes, early Middle English nearnesse, early Middle English nearnysse, early Middle English nearunyss, early Middle English nerwnysse, Middle English narwenes, Middle English narwenesse, Middle English narwnes, Middle English narwness, 1500s narownes, 1500s narownesse, 1500s–1600s narrownesse, 1600s– narrowness; also Scottish pre-1700 nareuenes, pre-1700 narownes, pre-1700 narrownes.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: narrow adj., -ness suffix.

Etymology: < narrow adj. + -ness suffix.

a. Smallness from side to side, lack of breadth; †congestion, constriction (obsolete). Formerly also: †a narrow place, a strait (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > breadth or width > lack of breadth or narrowness > [noun]

narrownesseOE

narrowhead1440

strictness1604

eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. i. 9 Þonne mid longre nearonesse suþ þonan be eastan Constantinopolim Creca byrg ligeð.

?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 17 Þis þa tylung to þan manne, þe wel ȝefnesan ne mæȝe and micel nearnesse on þa heafedan habbaþ.

?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 23 Þes lacecraft sceal þan manne, þe nerwnysse byð æt þare heortan and æt ðare þrotu, þæt he uneþe specan mæȝan.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Num. xxii. 24 Þe angel stood in þe narwnessys [a1425 Corpus Oxf. narwenes; a1425 L.V. streitnessis; L. angustiis] of two stonyn wallys.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 57 (MED) Þanne þe see..narweþ to þe narwenesse of sex hondred paas.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 247/2 Narownesse, estreissevr.

1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Pref. sig. aavj^v There is none other passage oute of the narownesse of the readde sea.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 32 Farther beyonde lorne, the lande..is driuen to a strait and gret narownes.

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 4 According there to her breadth or narrownesse, we say she hath a narrow or broad buttocke.

1651 in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 52 Then complained he againe of the narrownesse of his breast.

1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 29 As many People as the Narrowness of the Passage would admit to stop.

a1795 J. Boswell Life Johnson (1799) anno 1783 IV. 200 I was occasionally troubled with a fit of narrowness.

1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 76 Cases..in which the narrowness or distortion of the pelvis was..considerable.

1883 H. Wace Gospel & Witnesses iv. 86 There would be something terrible..in the narrowness and straitness of the path which it marks out.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 20/1 This church is remarkable for its exceeding narrowness in proportion to its length.

1989 F. Forsyth Negotiator (BNC) 247 The leading car saw him and started to slow; owing to the narrowness of the road, the ones behind slowed as well.

2001 Independent (Electronic ed.) 5 Oct. He often wore many layers of clothes because he was..self-conscious about the narrowness of his buttocks.

†b. Small size or capacity of a place, etc. Obsolete.In Old English with genitive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > [noun] > insufficiency of space

narrownesseOE

straitness1586

strictness1604

spacelessness1981

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun] > smallness or scantiness of extent

narrownesseOE

straitnessc1384

strictness1604

pinchedness1857

boxiness1882

pokiness1886

eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iv. xiii. 292 Fore nearonisse þære stowe, þe þæt mynster ongetimbred is.

a1425 Dialogue Reason & Adversity (Cambr.) (1968) 11 (MED) Often tymes grete treis springen vp in streyt gardeines. Narwnes of place withstandeþ neþur wit neþur vertu.

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxv. 5) Our narownesse is a let untoo us, that God cannot replenish us [etc.].

1625 T. Godwin Moses & Aaron i. v. 26 All Israel could not stand by, for the narrownesse of the place.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. ix. 212 Which was considerable then, considering the narrowness of the City in those days.

1795 in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1862) III. 296 The narrowness of my library alone..would hinder me from placing a collection of the ‘Moniteur’ in it.

a. Limited or small capacity of intelligence, understanding, etc. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Pref. sig. Avij^v Suche as by the narownes of theyr vnderstandinge are not of capacitie to conceaue the causes and natures of thynges.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §290 To enlarge their Mindes to the Amplitude of the World; And not reduce the World to the Narrowness of their Mindes.

1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. Thirty-nine Articles i. 32 The only difficulty..in apprehending this, has arisen from the Narrowness of Mens Minds.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 112 Every man..by the narrowness of his understanding..contracted all his other affections to that one of Revenge.

1783 W. Thomson in R. Watson & W. Thomson Hist. Reign Philip III v. 361 Ferdinand, whose thirst of vengeance was in proportion to the narrowness of his capacity.

1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 357 Even men of..rigid morality were..scarcely less dangerous, from the narrowness of their understanding.

1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 200 It is this narrowness of the peasant mind which philosophers never fairly understand.

2000 Indian Express (Nexis) 21 Mar. A narrowness of comprehension and a blindness to reality which augurs poorly for the future of reforms.

b. Meanness, insularity, conservativeness, etc., of mind, view, soul, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > paltriness, meanness, or contempt

miserableness1633

meannessa1656

narrowness1661

sorriness1668

paltriness1727

threadbareness1771

wretchedness1810

trumperiness1868

picayunishness1870

threadbarity1892

1661 J. Howell Twelve Several Treat. 352 The sense of poverty..brings along with it a narrownesse of soul.

a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) ix. 272 It will relieve you against the natural scantness and narrowness of your hearts.

1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 12 The same Narrowness of Spirit, which tempts us not to satisfie all others.

1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 70 He hated a narrowness of soul in any party.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §296 The amazing narrowness of mind of some persons.

1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. iv. 57 If we are struck by the comprehension of his understanding, we may equally be so at the narrowness of his views.

1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life v. iii. 189 The narrowness of men's ideas in direct proportion to their parsimony in expenditure.

1923 R. F. Horton Mystical Quest Christ i. 17 The mental narrowness and opinionatedness of the typical Protestant temper.

1985 H. Carpenter Secret Gardens Prol. 13 Milne condemned organised religion for its narrowness of view.

c. Narrow-mindedness.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > [noun]

narrow-mindedness1646

parvanimitya1691

narrowness1697

narrow-spiritedness1709

little-mindedness1767

narrow-mindeda1774

contraction1775

illiberality1775

smallness1813

illiberalism1839

narrow-heartedness1850

single-track mind1919

tunnel vision1949

the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] > scrupulous care or attention to detail

chariness1571

minuteness1640

exactness1645

particularity1669

nicety1711

exactitude1735

narrowness1817

particularness1859

scrupulousness1863

detail1868

scrupulosity1879

meticulosity1887

meticulousness1909

1697 T. P. Blount Ess. 74 Which sort of narrowness I find many are subject to.

1734 G. Berkeley Analyst in Wks. (1871) III. 297 That prevailing narrowness and bigotry among many who pass for men of science.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. vi. 565 The narrowness which the mind contracts by habitual application to the practice of English law.

1889 J. Ruskin Præterita III. iii. 96 Norton saw all my weaknesses, measured all my narrownesses.

1981 M. Angelou Heart of Woman vi. 87 Stamps, Arkansas, with its dust and hate and narrowness was as South as it was possible to get.

a. Restricted range or scope of an immaterial thing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [noun]

limitation1597

limitedness1631

confinedness1639

narrowness1641

contractedness1659

inextension1827

stintedness1827

restrictedness1828

boundedness1886

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 5 To come within the narrownesse of houshold government, observation will shew us [etc.].

1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. a2 Those more amply treated, than the narrowness of the Drama can admit.

1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. 146 The Pleonasm evidently arose from the Narrowness of a simple Language.

1818 T. B. Macaulay in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) I. ii. 96 It was attributed to the narrowness of his reading.

1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) iii. 79 The narrowness of my opportunities..compels me to give up this.

1959 B. North & R. North tr. M. Duverger Polit. Parties (ed. 2) i. i. 53 The narrowness of French politics during the period of the Radical Republic is to be explained in large measure by the decentralization of the party in power.

1964 L. Woolf Beginning Again II. 102 What had primarily moved and shocked her was the grimness, hardship, narrowness of the lives to which most working class wives and mothers were condemned.

2000 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 15 Feb. b3 She had come to see the paradoxical narrowness of our Internet culture.

b. Scantiness, small or limited amount of income, means, etc. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > state of being limited in amount > scantiness or meagreness

scantnessc1386

parcity1509

tenuity1535

scantiness1567

bareness1580

barrenness1587

exiguity1604

leanness1612

meagreness1622

thinness1623

jejuneness1626

macilencya1631

narrowness1647

straitnessa1704

flimsinessa1763

threadbareness1771

poorness1782

skimpiness1879

threadbarity1892

1647 C. Cotterell & W. Aylesbury tr. E. C. Davila Hist. Civill Warres France i. 21 Finding the narrownesse of his fortune could not maintain the greatnesse of his birth.

1699 H. Wanley in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 293 The narrowness of my time and paper will not permit me to trouble you much further.

1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 73 The narrowness of her income.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 328 My father made me a tolerable allowance, notwithstanding the narrowness of his income.

1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables iii. 52 I was born a lady, and have always lived one; no matter in what narrowness of means, always a lady.

1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge II. xix. 264 He had no notion that she indulged her innate passion so extensively in proportion to the narrowness of their income.

4. Smallness or slimness of margin (of a victory, defeat, etc.).

ΚΠ

1884 Truth 13 Mar. 369/2 Considering the narrowness of the defeat..the tie should certainly be replayed.

1990 Keesing's Contemp. Archives Nov. (BNC) These factors, together with the narrowness of the LDP's victory in Aichi..persuaded Kaifu to withdraw the bill.

2001 Canberra Times (Nexis) 20 Jan. c2 A president humbled by the narrowness of his victory would have found an attorney-general who enjoyed bipartisan respect.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	narrowness
释义	narrownessn. Brit. /ˈnarəʊnəs/, U.S. /ˈnɛroʊnəs/ Forms: Old English nearenes, Old English nearenis, Old English nearenys, Old English nearones, Old English nearonis, Old English nearonys, late Old English nearownes, early Middle English nearnesse, early Middle English nearnysse, early Middle English nearunyss, early Middle English nerwnysse, Middle English narwenes, Middle English narwenesse, Middle English narwnes, Middle English narwness, 1500s narownes, 1500s narownesse, 1500s–1600s narrownesse, 1600s– narrowness; also Scottish pre-1700 nareuenes, pre-1700 narownes, pre-1700 narrownes. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: narrow adj., -ness suffix. Etymology: < narrow adj. + -ness suffix. 1. a. Smallness from side to side, lack of breadth; †congestion, constriction (obsolete). Formerly also: †a narrow place, a strait (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > breadth or width > lack of breadth or narrowness > [noun] narrownesseOE narrowhead1440 strictness1604 eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. i. 9 Þonne mid longre nearonesse suþ þonan be eastan Constantinopolim Creca byrg ligeð. ?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 17 Þis þa tylung to þan manne, þe wel ȝefnesan ne mæȝe and micel nearnesse on þa heafedan habbaþ. ?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 23 Þes lacecraft sceal þan manne, þe nerwnysse byð æt þare heortan and æt ðare þrotu, þæt he uneþe specan mæȝan. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Num. xxii. 24 Þe angel stood in þe narwnessys [a1425 Corpus Oxf. narwenes; a1425 L.V. streitnessis; L. angustiis] of two stonyn wallys. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 57 (MED) Þanne þe see..narweþ to þe narwenesse of sex hondred paas. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 247/2 Narownesse, estreissevr. 1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Pref. sig. aavj^v There is none other passage oute of the narownesse of the readde sea. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 32 Farther beyonde lorne, the lande..is driuen to a strait and gret narownes. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 4 According there to her breadth or narrownesse, we say she hath a narrow or broad buttocke. 1651 in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 52 Then complained he againe of the narrownesse of his breast. 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 29 As many People as the Narrowness of the Passage would admit to stop. a1795 J. Boswell Life Johnson (1799) anno 1783 IV. 200 I was occasionally troubled with a fit of narrowness. 1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 76 Cases..in which the narrowness or distortion of the pelvis was..considerable. 1883 H. Wace Gospel & Witnesses iv. 86 There would be something terrible..in the narrowness and straitness of the path which it marks out. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 20/1 This church is remarkable for its exceeding narrowness in proportion to its length. 1989 F. Forsyth Negotiator (BNC) 247 The leading car saw him and started to slow; owing to the narrowness of the road, the ones behind slowed as well. 2001 Independent (Electronic ed.) 5 Oct. He often wore many layers of clothes because he was..self-conscious about the narrowness of his buttocks. †b. Small size or capacity of a place, etc. Obsolete.In Old English with genitive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > [noun] > insufficiency of space narrownesseOE straitness1586 strictness1604 spacelessness1981 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun] > smallness or scantiness of extent narrownesseOE straitnessc1384 strictness1604 pinchedness1857 boxiness1882 pokiness1886 eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iv. xiii. 292 Fore nearonisse þære stowe, þe þæt mynster ongetimbred is. a1425 Dialogue Reason & Adversity (Cambr.) (1968) 11 (MED) Often tymes grete treis springen vp in streyt gardeines. Narwnes of place withstandeþ neþur wit neþur vertu. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxv. 5) Our narownesse is a let untoo us, that God cannot replenish us [etc.]. 1625 T. Godwin Moses & Aaron i. v. 26 All Israel could not stand by, for the narrownesse of the place. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. ix. 212 Which was considerable then, considering the narrowness of the City in those days. 1795 in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1862) III. 296 The narrowness of my library alone..would hinder me from placing a collection of the ‘Moniteur’ in it. 2. a. Limited or small capacity of intelligence, understanding, etc. Now rare. ΚΠ 1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Pref. sig. Avij^v Suche as by the narownes of theyr vnderstandinge are not of capacitie to conceaue the causes and natures of thynges. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §290 To enlarge their Mindes to the Amplitude of the World; And not reduce the World to the Narrowness of their Mindes. 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. Thirty-nine Articles i. 32 The only difficulty..in apprehending this, has arisen from the Narrowness of Mens Minds. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 112 Every man..by the narrowness of his understanding..contracted all his other affections to that one of Revenge. 1783 W. Thomson in R. Watson & W. Thomson Hist. Reign Philip III v. 361 Ferdinand, whose thirst of vengeance was in proportion to the narrowness of his capacity. 1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 357 Even men of..rigid morality were..scarcely less dangerous, from the narrowness of their understanding. 1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 200 It is this narrowness of the peasant mind which philosophers never fairly understand. 2000 Indian Express (Nexis) 21 Mar. A narrowness of comprehension and a blindness to reality which augurs poorly for the future of reforms. b. Meanness, insularity, conservativeness, etc., of mind, view, soul, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > paltriness, meanness, or contempt miserableness1633 meannessa1656 narrowness1661 sorriness1668 paltriness1727 threadbareness1771 wretchedness1810 trumperiness1868 picayunishness1870 threadbarity1892 1661 J. Howell Twelve Several Treat. 352 The sense of poverty..brings along with it a narrownesse of soul. a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) ix. 272 It will relieve you against the natural scantness and narrowness of your hearts. 1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 12 The same Narrowness of Spirit, which tempts us not to satisfie all others. 1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 70 He hated a narrowness of soul in any party. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §296 The amazing narrowness of mind of some persons. 1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. iv. 57 If we are struck by the comprehension of his understanding, we may equally be so at the narrowness of his views. 1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life v. iii. 189 The narrowness of men's ideas in direct proportion to their parsimony in expenditure. 1923 R. F. Horton Mystical Quest Christ i. 17 The mental narrowness and opinionatedness of the typical Protestant temper. 1985 H. Carpenter Secret Gardens Prol. 13 Milne condemned organised religion for its narrowness of view. c. Narrow-mindedness. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > [noun] narrow-mindedness1646 parvanimitya1691 narrowness1697 narrow-spiritedness1709 little-mindedness1767 narrow-mindeda1774 contraction1775 illiberality1775 smallness1813 illiberalism1839 narrow-heartedness1850 single-track mind1919 tunnel vision1949 the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] > scrupulous care or attention to detail chariness1571 minuteness1640 exactness1645 particularity1669 nicety1711 exactitude1735 narrowness1817 particularness1859 scrupulousness1863 detail1868 scrupulosity1879 meticulosity1887 meticulousness1909 1697 T. P. Blount Ess. 74 Which sort of narrowness I find many are subject to. 1734 G. Berkeley Analyst in Wks. (1871) III. 297 That prevailing narrowness and bigotry among many who pass for men of science. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. vi. 565 The narrowness which the mind contracts by habitual application to the practice of English law. 1889 J. Ruskin Præterita III. iii. 96 Norton saw all my weaknesses, measured all my narrownesses. 1981 M. Angelou Heart of Woman vi. 87 Stamps, Arkansas, with its dust and hate and narrowness was as South as it was possible to get. 3. a. Restricted range or scope of an immaterial thing. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [noun] limitation1597 limitedness1631 confinedness1639 narrowness1641 contractedness1659 inextension1827 stintedness1827 restrictedness1828 boundedness1886 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 5 To come within the narrownesse of houshold government, observation will shew us [etc.]. 1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. a2 Those more amply treated, than the narrowness of the Drama can admit. 1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. 146 The Pleonasm evidently arose from the Narrowness of a simple Language. 1818 T. B. Macaulay in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) I. ii. 96 It was attributed to the narrowness of his reading. 1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) iii. 79 The narrowness of my opportunities..compels me to give up this. 1959 B. North & R. North tr. M. Duverger Polit. Parties (ed. 2) i. i. 53 The narrowness of French politics during the period of the Radical Republic is to be explained in large measure by the decentralization of the party in power. 1964 L. Woolf Beginning Again II. 102 What had primarily moved and shocked her was the grimness, hardship, narrowness of the lives to which most working class wives and mothers were condemned. 2000 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 15 Feb. b3 She had come to see the paradoxical narrowness of our Internet culture. b. Scantiness, small or limited amount of income, means, etc. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > state of being limited in amount > scantiness or meagreness scantnessc1386 parcity1509 tenuity1535 scantiness1567 bareness1580 barrenness1587 exiguity1604 leanness1612 meagreness1622 thinness1623 jejuneness1626 macilencya1631 narrowness1647 straitnessa1704 flimsinessa1763 threadbareness1771 poorness1782 skimpiness1879 threadbarity1892 1647 C. Cotterell & W. Aylesbury tr. E. C. Davila Hist. Civill Warres France i. 21 Finding the narrownesse of his fortune could not maintain the greatnesse of his birth. 1699 H. Wanley in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 293 The narrowness of my time and paper will not permit me to trouble you much further. 1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 73 The narrowness of her income. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 328 My father made me a tolerable allowance, notwithstanding the narrowness of his income. 1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables iii. 52 I was born a lady, and have always lived one; no matter in what narrowness of means, always a lady. 1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge II. xix. 264 He had no notion that she indulged her innate passion so extensively in proportion to the narrowness of their income. 4. Smallness or slimness of margin (of a victory, defeat, etc.). ΚΠ 1884 Truth 13 Mar. 369/2 Considering the narrowness of the defeat..the tie should certainly be replayed. 1990 Keesing's Contemp. Archives Nov. (BNC) These factors, together with the narrowness of the LDP's victory in Aichi..persuaded Kaifu to withdraw the bill. 2001 Canberra Times (Nexis) 20 Jan. c2 A president humbled by the narrowness of his victory would have found an attorney-general who enjoyed bipartisan respect. 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