minuity

English

Noun

minuity (countable and uncountable, plural minuities)

1. A trifle; a thing of little importance or worth; something small.
   • 1612 Thomas Shelton, Cervantes Saavedra's (M. de) History of Don Quixote 1.3.6.174:

     I would not have my soule suffer in the other world for such a minuity as is thy wages.

2. Smallness; meanness.
   • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two World Systems (Dialogue 2):

     The space of the reversion of the project to the circumference is reduced to the ultimate minuity, which is when the moveable resteth upon the circumference in the very point of contact.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “minuity”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.