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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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10 words match “NARROWNESS”

NARROWNESS n.
The condition or quality of being narrow.
CONTRACTEDNESS n.
The state of being contracted; narrowness; meannes; selfishness.
DEARTH n.
gypt. Acts vii. 11. He with her press'd, she faint with dearth. Shak. Dearth of plot, and narrowness of imagination. Dryden.
ILLIBERALITY n.
The state or quality of being illiberal; narrowness of mind; meanness; niggardliness. Bacon.
INSULARITY n.
Narrowness or illiberality of opinion; prejudice; exclusiveness; as, the insularity of the Chinese or of the aristocracy.
LIBERALITY n.
The quality or state of being liberal; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity. That liberality is but cast away Which makes us borrow what we can not pay. Denham.
PROVINCIALISM n.
emote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality. M. Arnold.
SCANTNESS n.
The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness. "Scantness of outward things." Barrow.
STRAIT n.
Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits. For I am in a strait betwixt two. Phil. i. 23. Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever. South. Ulysses made use of…
UTILITARIAN a.
Of or pertaining to utility; consisting in utility; as, utilitarian narrowness; a utilitarian indifference to art.