MINIMIZED • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Minimized

... its muddy ways with more or less danger owing to absence of footpath, and presence of numerous carriages. However, having passed the Hotel d'Angleterre and the end of Rue du Fort (leading to the ancient castle), footpaths came into view, but the joy of the discovery was much minimized at the sight of the shops and shopkeepers, as the latter gave us no peace. It was one ceaseless bother to buy, mostly in French; but one damsel, confident of success assailed us in whining English, running ...

— Twixt France and Spain • E. Ernest Bilbrough

... other hand, where through a nebulous philosophy men have minimized Jesus, or where, through some weakness of the human mind, they have sought the aid of others and relegated Jesus Christ to a more distant, even if a higher, sphere—where, in short, Christ is not the living centre of everything, the value of the Church has declined, ...

— The Jesus of History • T. R. Glover