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Webster 1913 Edition


Narrowness

Nar′row-ness

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Noun.
[AS.
nearunes
.]
The condition or quality of being narrow.

Webster 1828 Edition


Narrowness

NARROWNESS

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Noun.
1.
Smallness of breadth or distance from side to side; as the narrowness of cloth, of a street or highway, of a stream or sea.
2.
Smallness of extent; contractedness; as the narrowness of capacity or comprehension; narrowness of knowledge or attainments.
3.
Smallness of estate or means of living; poverty; as the narrowness of fortune or of circumstances.
4.
Contractedness; penuriousness; covetousness; as narrowness of heart.
5.
Illiberality; want of generous, enlarged or charitable views or sentiments; as narrowness of mind or views.