"dwarfish" meaning in English

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          "text": "1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Section XXIV, in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, London: John C. Nimmo, 1887, Volume I, p. 242, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15043/15043-h/15043-h.htm\nBesides the extraordinary great in every species, the opposite to this, the dwarfish and diminutive, ought to be considered. Littleness, merely as such, has nothing contrary to the idea of beauty."
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          "roman": "dreben",
          "sense": "being especially small",
          "word": "дребен"
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          "roman": "nedorazvit",
          "sense": "being especially small",
          "word": "недоразвит"
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          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "being especially small",
          "word": "tauhena"
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          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "being especially small",
          "word": "karli"
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          "sense": "being especially small",
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      "roman": "dreben",
      "sense": "being especially small",
      "word": "дребен"
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nedorazvit",
      "sense": "being especially small",
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      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "being especially small",
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    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "being especially small",
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      "sense": "being especially small",
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