belittled
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[edit]belittled
- simple past and past participle of belittle
- 1997, Robert Faggen, Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin[1], University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 250:
- We both are the belittled human race ,
One as compared with God and one with space .
I had thought ours the more profound disgrace ;
But doubtless this was only my conceit .
The cloister and the observatory saint
Take comfort in about the same complaint.
So science and religion really meet. […]