0 reduction in size or importance: --
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If secularization does not necessarily imply rationality, then desecularization does not necessarily imply a diminution of rational thinking.
We use the term preferential solvation to describe the accumulation or diminution of components near or at the surface of the protein.
Although it may be said that the diminution of libido in itself is a contraceptive force, to most men it is aesthetically and intellectually unacceptable.
There is little evidence that the proportion of the comparatively more employable underwent a notable diminution.
A diminution of the set of quotable pieces must, other factors held constant, lead to an expansion of citation density.
There is a drastic diminution of population size and a considerable proportionate increase in the older age groups.
His argument that internalization must occur in all possible cases, or suffer severe diminution of importance, is not persuasive.
He covers a period of six hundred years with no diminution of information, or easy generalisations.
