[ad. L. exiguitās, f. exiguus: see EXIGUOUS.] The quality or condition of being exiguous; scantiness in measure; smallness in size or quantity, littleness.
1623–6. in Cockeram.
1658. J. Robinson, Eudoxa, I. 116. Sense is … puzled at the exiguity of particular moats.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., I. 34. Their exceeding exiguity; for certainly of all Animals they are the least.
1846. Blackw. Mag., LX. 589. Astonished at the exiguity of the plats placed before him.
1873. Whitney, Orient. Stud., 242. We are disappointed at the exiguity of the results.
concr. 1664. Power, Exp. Philos., Pref. 8. The Insectile automata (those living exiguities).
