parvity
/ˈpɑːvɪti/noun
Smallness. Now only in parvity of matter: triviality, especially of a sin or crime.
Origin
Early 17th century; earliest use found in Tobias Venner (1577–1660), physician and medical writer. From classical Latin parvitās smallness, insignificance from parvus little + -tās.
- sell one's soul (to the devil)
- sell (or sell off) the family jewels
- sell (or sell off) the family silver
- Sellotape
- sell-out
- sell short
- sell someone a bill of goods
- sell someone a dummy
- sell someone a (or the) dummy
- sell someone a pup
- sell someone down the river
- sell someone/thing short
- sell something for a mess of pottage
- sell the pass
- sell-through
- Selma
- Selous, Frederick Courteney
- seltzer
- seltzer water
- selva
- selvage
- selvedge
- selves
- Selye, Hans Hugo Bruno
- Selznick, David O.