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Scintilla

noun

A tiny or scarcely detectable amount. Synonyms: iota, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit.

A sparkling glittering particle.

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"Scintilla" Quotes from Famous Books

... of Christ's teaching. I have said that He was the most egotistical of men. I would say, too, that there never was another who clashed down in the front of humanity such tremendous assertions, with not the faintest scintilla of an attempt to prove them to our understandings, or commend them by any other plea than this, 'Verily, verily, I say ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... all probability; morally he had not the shadow of a claim. The valley in justice belonged to those who had settled in it and were using it for their needs. His claim was merely a paper one. It had not a scintilla of ...

— A Daughter of the Dons - A Story of New Mexico Today • William MacLeod Raine

Words linked to "Scintilla" : small indefinite amount, subatomic particle, particle, small indefinite quantity