What is "diminutions"

Usage examples of "diminutions".

The moment had come, and Cyrus Harding knelt on the sand, and with little wooden pegs, which he stuck into the sand, he began to mark the successive diminutions of the stick's shadow.

The moment had come, and Cyrus Harding knelt on the sand, and with little wooden pegs, which he stuck into the sand, he began to mark the successive diminutions of the stick’s shadow.

Wogan had preached a sermon on the carelessness which comes with danger's diminutions, but he was very tired.

For that they derived the rule of Columnes from Trees, especially in their proportionall diminutions, is illustrated by Vitruvius from the shafts of Firre and Pine.

It was more anthropoid than not, but with certain striking exaggerations or diminutions of the human scale in some of its features.

There were accesses of it at times, then at other times there were diminutions of it.

The void that surrounds those memories is misty with the fractal diminutions of endless associations and augmentations-the magical zone of the imagination, its flowstreams of hallucinatory shapes shrinking ever farther into virtual space, like a tree whose madness of tiny roots tightens on nothing.