In eighteen forty-four, the Republican Sentinel of Virginia wrote this about the opposition party: "The Whigs may attempt to belittle our candidates ...

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the paper wrote, "so let the opposition try to belittle him as much as they please."

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It seems that efforts to belittle the word did not stop people from using it.

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At that moment, Jefferson created a new word - belittle.

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He said,"Belittle has no chance of becoming English.

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'Belittle - to make small,unimportant.'

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Today's word is belittle.

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