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Sartre lost his father at an early age and grew up in the home of his maternal grandfather, Carl Schweitzer, uncle of the medical missionary Albert Schweitzer and himself professor of German at the Sorbonne. The boy, who wandered in the Luxembourg Gardens of Paris in search of playmates, was small in <anchor>stature</anchor> and cross-eyed. His brilliant autobiography, Les Mots (1963; Words), narrates the adventures of the mother and child in the park as they went from group to group—in the vain hope of being accepted—then finally retreated to the sixth floor of their apartment “on the heights where (the) dreams dwell.” “The words” saved the child, and his interminable pages of writing were the escape from a world that had rejected him but that he would proceed to rebuild in his own fancy.
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# stature

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stature /ˈstætʃɚ/noun

stature

/ˈstætʃɚ/

noun

Britannica Dictionary definition of STATURE

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**1**

:the level of respect that people have for a successful person, organization, etc.

- We are honored to be working with a writer of his _stature_. \[=a writer who is so highly respected\]

- The university has grown/gained in _stature_ during her time as president.


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**2**

somewhat formal:a person's height

- a woman of rather short _stature_ \[=a rather short woman\]


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