Definition of "dwarfishness" []

• Smallness of stature; littleness of size. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "You stuff the little rosy foot of a Chinese young lady of fashion into a slipper that is about the size of a salt-cruet, and keep the poor little toes there imprisoned and twisted up so long that the dwarfishness becomes irremediable."
• "No other explanation seems to have been offered by science for the extreme dwarfishness in stature of this curious race of people."
• "In countries where the nobility are destitute of public employment, they naturally degenerate -- become the victims of the diseases of indolence and profligacy, transmit their decrepitude to their descendants, and bequeath dwarfishness and deformity to their name."