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narrow | apanthropinisation |

As nouns the difference between narrow and apanthropinisation

is that narrow is (chiefly|in the plural) a narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water while apanthropinisation is (rare) the broadening of the ambit of one’s preoccupations and concerns away from a narrow focus on those things most palpably human and most closely pertinent to humanity“apanthropinization” listed [http://booksgooglecouk/books?id=qhccaaaamaaj&q=apanthropinization&dq=apanthropinization&ei=hdvwsctmhqkiyasj8aidbw&pgis=1 on pages 50–51] of joseph twadell shipley’s dictionary of early english (1955 ; philosophical library).

As an adjective narrow

is having a small width; not wide; slim; slender; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.

As a verb narrow

is to reduce in width or extent; to contract.

narrow

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having a small width; not wide; slim; slender; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=14 citation , passage=Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.}}
  • Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
  • * Bishop Wilkins
    • The Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world.
  • (figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
  • Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted.
    • a narrow''' mind; '''narrow views
  • * Macaulay
    • a narrow understanding
  • Having a small margin or degree.
    • The Republicans won by a narrow majority.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 18, author=Ben Dirs
    • , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia, work=BBC Sport citation , passage=As in their narrow defeat of Argentina last week, England were indisciplined at the breakdown, and if Georgian fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili had remembered his kicking boots, Johnson's side might have been behind at half-time.}}
  • (dated) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching.
    • narrow circumstances
  • Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
  • * Smalridge
    • a very narrow and stinted charity
  • Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
  • * Milton
    • But first with narrow search I must walk round / This garden, and no corner leave unspied.
  • (phonetics) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.

    • Antonyms

    * wide * broad

    Derived terms

    * narrowboat, narrow boat * narrow-minded * narrowness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
    • We need to narrow the search.
  • To get narrower.
    • The road narrows .
  • (knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
    • Synonyms
    * taper

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.
    • the Narrows of New York harbor
  • * Gladstone
    • Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow .
    1000 English basic words

    apanthropinisation

    English

    Alternative forms

    * apanthropinization

    Noun

    (-)
  • (rare) The broadening of the ambit of one’s preoccupations and concerns away from a narrow focus on those things most palpably human and most closely pertinent to humanity.“apanthropinization” listed on pages 50–51 of Joseph Twadell Shipley’s Dictionary of Early English (1955 ; Philosophical Library)
  • * 1880, Oct.: , Mind'', volume 5 (? 20), page 451] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=F_0EAAAAQAAJ&q=apanthropinisation&dq=apanthropinisation&ei=_c1WSdnaDKTmyAT-67mlCQ&pgis=1 ?] (Williams and Norgate) · (also quoted, with scant little alteration, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3pINAAAAQAAJ&q=apanthropinisation&dq=apanthropinisation&ei=_c1WSdnaDKTmyAT-67mlCQ&pgis=1 on page 292] of ''The Academy [? 18, 1880)
    • In short, the primitive human conception of beauty must, I believe, have been purely anthropinistic'' — must have gathered mainly around the personality of man or woman; and all its subsequent history must be that of an ''apanthropinisation (I apologise for the ugly but convenient word), a gradual regression or concentric widening of æsthetic feeling around this fixed point which remains to the very last its natural centre.
  • * 1881, Jan.: '', volume 18 (1880–1881), page 344] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aaMVAAAAYAAJ&dq=apanthropinization&ei=HdVWScTmHqKIyASJ8aiDBw ?] (D. Appleton); quoting ''verbatim'', but not ''literatim'', the text of the first occurrence in ''Mind [1880] [[#Quotations, hereinbefore] (minor adjustments to Americanise the spelling have been made)
    • In short, the primitive human conception of beauty must, I believe, have been purely anthropinistic'' — must have gathered mainly around the personality of man or woman; and all its subsequent history must be that of an ''apanthropinization (I apologize for the ugly but convenient word), a gradual regression or concentric widening of æsthetic feeling around this fixed point which remains to the very last its natural center.
  • * 2005, Mar.: Anne-Julia Zwierlein (editor), Unmapped Countries: Biological Visions in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture , page 114] ([http://www.anthempress.com/product_info.php?&products_id=143&osCsid= Anthem Press; ISBN 1843311607, 978?1843311607)
    • From this early, ‘anthropinistic’ stage, at which all aesthetic feeling is ‘gathered mainly around the personality of man or woman’, human aesthetic feeling gradually evolves in a process of apanthropinization , ‘a gradual regression or concentric widening of aesthetic feeling around this fixed point’,59 and advances to the appreciation of beauty in nature.60

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