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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Modicum  \Mod"i*cum\,  n.  [L.,  fr  modicus  moderate,  fr  modus. 
  See  {Mode}.] 
  A  little;  a  small  quantity;  a  measured  simply.  ``Modicums  of 
  wit.''  --Shak. 
 
  Her  usual  modicum  of  beer  and  punch.  --Thackeray. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  modicum 
  n  :  a  small  or  moderate  or  token  amount:  "England  still  expects 
  a  modicum  of  eccentricity  in  its  artists"-  Ian  Jack 




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