Literary notes about Diminution (AI summary)
The term "diminution" is employed with versatile nuance in literature, often signifying a reduction or lessening in various domains, from physical attributes to abstract fortunes. In some works, it marks the decline of social or political influence, as seen in the reduction of a powerful family or state [1, 2]. Philosophical and economic discussions invoke diminution to describe the measured decrease in wealth, revenue, or even natural phenomena like heat and light [3, 4]. Meanwhile, in discussions of form and structure, such as in architectural treatises, diminution denotes proportional decrease or fragmentation [5]. Across these diverse contexts, diminution functions as a precise term that captures the gradual process of losing intensity, quality, or scope.
- Their first subject was the diminution of the Rosings party.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Right here we suffered the first diminution of our princely state.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain - When the diminution of revenue is the effect of the diminution of consumption, there can be but one remedy, and that is the lowering of the tax.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - The diminution of heat, as you know, produces a contraction in the bulk of fluids, as well as of solids.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - The diminution of the column should be the same as described for Ionic columns in the third book.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
