exiguous

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Thought's place in nature is exiguous, however broad the landscape it represents; it touches the world tangentially only, in some ferment of the brain.

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  1. adjective Extremely scanty; meager.

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  • The pay was exiguous, and my prospects worth nothing. —  THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY MAITLAND
  • Perhaps a more exiguous form of association could be developed on the model of the dominions of the British Commonwealth, where the British head of state is also head of state of Australia, Jamaica, Canada, and New Zealand. —  Foreign Policy In Focus
  • Thought's place in nature is exiguous, however broad the landscape it represents; it touches the world tangentially only, in some ferment of the brain. —  The Life of Reason
  • In the buttressed hollow of one of these palaeozoic cathedrals you are ashamed of your ribs, and blush for the exiguous pillars of bone on which your breathing structure reposes. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861
  • For eight-year-old Jane Eyre, poverty is more than being connected with ragged clothes and exiguous food. —  A Guy's Moleskine Notebook
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  1. From Latin exiguus, from exigere, to measure out, demand; see exact.

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  1. = French exigu = Spanish Portuguese exiguo = Italian esiguo, from Latin exiguus, scanty in measure or number, small, slender, literally measured, exact (cf. immense, great, huge, literally unmeasured), from exigere, measure, determine, etc.: see exact, adjective, and examen.
 

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