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Minimise

verb
1.
Represent as less significant or important.  Synonyms: downplay, minimize, understate.
2.
Make small or insignificant.  Synonym: minimize.





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"Minimise" Quotes from Famous Books



... yet this is not the entire truth. It is helpful to regard events in this fashion, thus seeking to minimise the importance of fatality, looking upon it as some vague and wandering creature that we have to shelter and guide. We gain the more courage thereby, the more confidence, initiative; and these are qualities essential to the doing of anything ...
— Wisdom and Destiny • Maurice Maeterlinck
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... it really was Brod. Scholastic philosophy is inclined to this way of asserting itself; and Mr. Russell, though he candidly admits that there are ultimate differences of opinion about good and evil, would gladly minimise these differences, and thinks he triumphs when he feels that the prejudices of his readers will agree with his own; as if the constitutional unanimity of all human animals, supposing it existed, could tend to show that the good they ...
— Winds Of Doctrine - Studies in Contemporary Opinion • George Santayana
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... entirely. Such methods should be supplemented by institutions which undertake to cure criminals, while protecting society from their attacks, and by others for the segregation of incurable offenders, who should be rendered as useful as possible in order to minimise in every way the injury they inflict ...
— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero
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... injustice is inherent in the very nature of representation and cannot be overcome altogether, yet reason, by attending to all the evidences that can be gathered and by confronting the first pronouncement by others fetched from every quarter of experience, has power to minimise the error and reach a practically just estimate of absent values. This achieved rightness can be tested by comparing two experiences, each when it is present, with the same conventional permanent object chosen to be their expression. ...
— The Life of Reason • George Santayana
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Words linked to "Minimise" :   minimize, lessen, minimum, maximise, decrease, maximize, minify, hedge, trivialize, overstate, trivialise, downplay, inform, minimisation


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