Synonyms for modicum

Grammar : Noun

Spell : mod-i-kuh m, moh-di-

Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɒd ɪ kəm, ˈmoʊ dɪ-

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Définition of modicum

Origin : "small quantity or portion," late 15c., Scottish, from Latin modicum "a little," noun use of neuter of modicus "moderate, having a proper measure; ordinary, scanty, small, few," from modus "measure, manner" (see mode (n.1)).

noun bit, small amount

Example sentences :

And these lucubrations accomplished, we daresay, their modicum of harm.
Extract from : « Leading Articles on Various Subjects » by Hugh Miller

It was a stone that would please any woman with plenty of money and a modicum of taste.
Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus

Certainly, of this modicum of time you cannot afford to waste any portion.
Extract from : « Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford » by Edward Berens

Fortunately the landlord was a man with some modicum of common sense.
Extract from : « The Motor Pirate » by George Sidney Paternoster

If we chose to grow only partridges henceforth, and a modicum of wheat for our own uses?
Extract from : « Past and Present » by Thomas Carlyle

It consisted only of wet biscuit, a modicum of ham, and a small taste of liquor.
Extract from : « Paddy Finn » by W. H. G. Kingston

Hence, during windy weather, a modicum of dust is introduced into it.
Extract from : « The Red Man's Revenge » by R.M. Ballantyne

If it did all this, then we should really have evidence of a modicum of reason.
Extract from : « The Mason-bees » by J. Henri Fabre

On the eighth we had cold fowl for breakfast, with a modicum of water.
Extract from : « Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration » by Ernest Giles

He found that there was still a modicum of life and its energy within his baggy hide.
Extract from : « Mount Rainier » by Various

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