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** English
*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. One who belittle s.
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1876 | author=Corydon Charles Merriman | chapter=A Trip to Mexico | title=Lectures, Essays and Published Articles on Scientific and Literary Subjects and on Foreign Travel | location=Rochester, New York | year_published=1885 | page=293 | url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007905254
|passage=The very thrill of joy that went through the land when it was
announced that the devoted and intrepid [Heinrich Schliemann] had found at
Mycena an Aladin’s cave of Homeric heroes and treasures and evidences, ought
to be a significant warning to all misbelievers and BELITTLERS of history.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1913 | author=Everard Meynell | title=The Life of [Francis Thompson] | location=London | publisher=Burns & Oates | chapter=7 | page=142 | url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924013563865
|passage=He thought out his brisk repartees purely for his own satisfaction
and at leisure, and would have blushed to answer his BELITTLERS in the open.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1958 | author=w:Robert A. Heinlein | title=w:Have Space Suit—Will Travel | location=New York | publisher=Ballantine | year_published=1977 | chapter=3 | page=39 | url=https://archive.org/details/havespacesuitwil00hein_0
|passage=“I wonder how harmless such people are? To what extent civilization
is retarded by the laughing jack-asses, the empty-minded BELITTLERS? [...]”}}
**** Synonyms
- [en] , [en]