dimunition

• I doubt that there's any dimunition in independence - having written extensively for Crikey in the past myself, writing for them is very different than writing for the MSM. —  Larvatus Prodeo
• The judge's decision that the failure of the prosecution to disclose the training video, although an error, would not have changed the verdict ... the only way to truly know the answer to that question is to retry the case; a judge making a decision as to what he / she thinks a jury of 12 people would decide is a dimunition of the jury system. —  The Texas Observer: In the Current Issue
• The dimunition of atmospheric pressure made our circulation more rapid. —  The Physiology of Taste
• One morning, as he put on his mottled blue stockings, he noticed a marked dimunition in the circumference of his calves. —  The Celibates
• This dimunition of the bulk of a mixture of nitrous gas and vital air, Dr. Priestley ingeniously used as a test of the purity of the latter; a discovery of the greatest importance in the analysis of airs. —  The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation

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