Diminish

Examples

• Yet this consideration does not, or rather did not in after time, diminish the reproaches of my conscience. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I watched to see whether it would spread: but no; as it did not diminish, so it did not enlarge. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• As it has no tendency to diminish the quantity, it can have none to raise the price of that produce. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But this does not reflect upon or diminish the ingenuity required for its invention. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A seignorage will, in many cases, take away altogether, and will in all cases diminish, the profit of melting down the new coin. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The high price of such commodities does not necessarily diminish the ability of the inferior ranks of people to bring up families. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The value of the most barren land is not diminished by the neighbourhood of the most fertile. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The freedom of choice which this allows him, is therefore much greater, and the difficulty of his task much more diminished, than at first appears. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Our first plan had been to quit our wintry native latitude, and seek for our diminished numbers the luxuries and delights of a southern climate. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Not only the profits of stock, but the rent of land, and the wages of labour, would necessarily be more or less diminished by its removal. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In our poultry, a large tuft of feathers on the head is generally accompanied by a diminished comb, and a large beard by diminished wattles. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The profits of stock would be diminished, both really and in appearance. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Thus, we talked of them, and moralized, as with diminished numbers we returned to Windsor Castle. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The hunters of the third and last stage of the later Pal?olithic Age appear to have supplemented a diminishing food supply by fishing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We could thus take care of a snow-storm by diminishing the bulk of material to be handled. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But instead of diminishing their claims to approbation and reward, it places those claims on a more substantial foundation than that of abstract original ideas. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The diseases they were subject to still continue, without increasing or diminishing. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Further on Wells remarks that this diminishing actuality of our political life is a matter of almost universal comment to-day. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This tribe accordingly went on diminishing, till there remained in their town on the manor but twenty persons, viz. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• This new battery was strong enough to pass a powerful current through the magnet without materially diminishing the strength of the line current. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We learned in Section 287 that the strength of a current increases when the electromotive force increases, and diminishes when the electromotive force diminishes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Now Dalton's master had taught that the atoms of matter in a gas (elastic fluid) repel one another by a force increasing in proport ion as their distance diminishes. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The light diminishes in brightness much more rapidly than we realize, as the following simple experiment will show. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But the intensity of the vibrations diminishes very rapidly with the distance; so that even with the aid of speaking-tubes and trumpets it is impossible to exceed somewhat narrow limits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Mr. Bucket brings a chair and diminishes his shadow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The same quantity of money, besides, can not long remain in any country in which the value of the annual produce diminishes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In proportion as the resemblance decays, the probability diminishes; but still has some force as long as there remain any traces of the resemblance. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.

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