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Fewest

adjective

(superlative of 'few' used with count nouns and usually preceded by 'the') quantifier meaning the smallest in number.

Few

adjective

(compar. fewer; superl. fewest)

A quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by 'a'; a small but indefinite number. "A few more wagons than usual" , "An invalid's pleasures are few and far between" , "Few roses were still blooming" , "Few women have led troops in battle"

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"Fewest" Quotes from Famous Books

... inner or 'theoretical' life, as he calls it, remote from the concerns of the City-State and almost, except for its excessive intellectuality, recalling the monastic ideal of the Middle Age. But this is only for the fewest. Nevertheless it involved the admission that behind the citizen remained the man, who might conceivably on occasion have his rights, that 'political science', as he says, 'does not make men', as Thucydides regarded ...

— The Legacy of Greece • Various

... when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification. An example may be seen in the passage which has been a favourite illustration from the days of Longinus to our own. "God said: Let there be light! and there was light." This is a conception of power so calm and simple that it needs ...

— The Principles of Success in Literature • George Henry Lewes

... was held not to have his equal.[3] But of all the Latin historians, Tacitus had the greatest influence. 'There is no learning so proper for the direction of the life of man as Historie; there is no historie so well worth the reading as Tacitus. Hee hath written the most matter with best conceit in fewest words of any Historiographer ancient or moderne.'[4] This had been said at the beginning of the first English translation of Tacitus, and it was the view generally held when he came to be better known. He ...

— Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles • Various

... won't undertake to describe. It adjoins both dining-room and kitchen. John says she never does anything in getting dinner but just sit down in an easy-chair and turn a crank. That's one of John's stories, but she certainly will prepare a meal the quickest and with the fewest steps of any person I ever knew. The funniest thing about it is, that I've known eight people at work in the room all at once without being in each other's way one bit. But that's no closer than ...

— Homes And How To Make Them • Eugene Gardner

... the pains were incessant. I read in ... the Kansas City Post last Spring about Dr. Brinkley's Goat-Gland operation, and decided to try it right away. I was in such misery I would have tried anything. Now I want to tell you, in the fewest words, that the amazing truth is that I have not had a twinge of pain of any kind at all since the operation, and have only a memory of my former suffering. This is a marvelous thing. I have the feeling of a youth. Whenever ...

— The Goat-gland Transplantation • Sydney B. Flower

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