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Synonyms for scintilla

Grammar : Noun
Spell : sin-til-uh
Phonetic Transcription : sɪnˈtɪl ə

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Définition of scintilla

Origin :
  • 1690s, "spark, glimmer," hence "least particle, trace," from figurative use of Latin scintilla "particle of fire, spark, glittering speck, atom," probably from PIE *ski-nto-, from root *skai- "to shine, to gleam" (cf. Gothic skeinan, Old English scinan "to shine;" see shine (v.)).
  • noun small bit, trace
Example sentences :
  • Any scintilla or fleck of truth I can pick off from a revolutionary, I take but I will not take him.
  • Extract from : « The Ghost in the White House » by Gerald Stanley Lee
  • Not a scintilla of proof appeared that these men were spies.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Jefferson Davis » by Frank H. Alfriend
  • They had merely waited that scintilla of ocular confirmation of a known danger.
  • Extract from : « Unexplored Spain » by Abel Chapman
  • This seems to me to have not a scintilla of justice about it.
  • Extract from : « The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It » by R. W. Beers
  • Neither history nor geology have scintilla of answer to those questions.
  • Extract from : « Through Our Unknown Southwest » by Agnes C. Laut
  • Did Mixtus not discover this view of Scintilla's before their marriage?
  • Extract from : « Impressions of Theophrastus Such » by George Eliot
  • Mr. Rand, there is not one scintilla of truth in any of these scurrilous stories!
  • Extract from : « Murder in the Gunroom » by Henry Beam Piper
  • Give me a scintilla of evidence, and I am ready to jump at them.
  • Extract from : « The Things Which Remain » by Daniel A. Goodsell
  • Don't be jealous, Scintilla; we're next to you women, too, believe me.
  • Extract from : « The Satyricon, Complete » by Petronius Arbiter
  • Scintilla was frightened, too, and shielded the shuddering woman with her garment.
  • Extract from : « The Satyricon, Complete » by Petronius Arbiter

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