dwarfishness

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.

The Book of Snobs 2006

If the cold of winter were to continue unmitigated from year to year, without the genial influence of summer, the human race, as is apparent in polar regions and upland mountainous districts, would degenerate into dwarfishness.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828 Various

No other explanation seems to have been offered by science for the extreme dwarfishness in stature of this curious race of people.

Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope

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.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

And no reason is too absurd to serve as a prop for their own dwarfishness and mental attitude.

Mein Kampf Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 1925

To the character which alone appears in the first cross is given the name dominant (in this instance tallness is dominant), and to the hidden character that of recessive (dwarfishness, in the example).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

It follows that the dwarfishness was not wiped out, but that it was temporarily obscured in the second generation, though present all the time potentially.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

I photographed one group of trees to illustrate their dainty elfish dwarfishness, but realising that no one could guess the height without a scale, I took a second of the same with a small Indian sitting next it.

The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

Science explains this dwarfishness produced by great abstraction of heat; showing that, food and other things being equal, it unavoidably results.

Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861

O! into what dwarfishness the morality, and the spiritual and elevated attainments of most Christians sink in the presence of such men!

The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada Egerton Ryerson 1842