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(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:05:47

Be*lit"tle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belittled (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Belittling.]

To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.

T. Jefferson.

 

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