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orness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess. This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison.

A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible Hooker.

The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility. Grew.

In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.

The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.

A mean, despicable person; one whose character meanness and wickedness meet.

Triteness; meanness.

The state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness. Degeneracy of spirit in a state of slavery. Addison. To recover mankind out of their universal corruption and degeneracy. S. Clarke.

The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.

Meanness; sordidness. Honors . . . thrown away upon dirt and infamy. Melmoth.

of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet. His parsimony went to the extreme of meanness. Bancroft.

nts, in potash. -- To skin a flint, to be capable of, or guilty of, any expedient or any meanness for making money. [Colloq.]

The state or quality of being illiberal; narrowness of mind; meanness; niggardliness. Bacon.

bleness, esp. of mind. Cruelty . . . argues not only a depravedness of nature, but also a meanness of courage and imbecility of mind. Sir W. Temple.

Want of claim to consideration or notice; want of influence or standing; meanness. Reduce him, from being the first person in the nation, to a state of insignificance. Beattie.

The quality of being lowminded; meanness; baseness.

one to encounter danger and trouble with tranquility and firmness, to disdain injustice, meanness and revenge, and to act and sacrifice for noble objects.

oposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.

Moderateness; smallness; meanness. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or spending; parsimony; stinginess. Niggardliness is not good husbandry. Addison.