2.Grammar Of or being a suffix that indicates smallness, youth, familiarity, affection, or contempt, as -let in booklet, -kin in lambkin, or -et in nymphet.
15.Rather, it was Gerald's compact smallness that made him what he was, for he had learned early that little people must be hardy to survive among large ones.
16.Elfride's mind had been impregnated with sentiments of her own smallness to an uncomfortable degree of distinctness, and her discomfort was visible in her face.
17.They generally have some, however; and in the payment of taxes, the greatness of their number may compensate, in some measure, the smallness of their contribution.
18.She began to write -- not about great dreams -- but about the smallness of man's vision. She mourned for the loss of values others would never miss.
19.It was as if we'd stepped into the larger crosscurrents of culture and history, reminded suddenly of our relative smallness in the wider arc of time.
20.But for all her plainness of feature and smallness of stature, there was a sedate dignity about her movements that was oddly touching and far older than her seventeen years.