Definition of Diminished

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Definition of Diminished
	Diminished of Diminish Related Definitions: Diminish, Of

Diminished Quotations

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin Franklin

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Walt Disney

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
T. S. Eliot

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
Charles Baudelaire

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
Dag Hammarskjold

If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.
David Ricardo

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.
Freda Adler

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.
Lenny Kravitz

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.
Joni Mitchell

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.
John Irving

Diminished Translations

diminished in German is verminderte
diminished in Latin is miniatus

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