Noun
The natural height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhy is it that so many men of small stature have more courage than men of size? John le Carré
The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height. William Wordsworth
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game. Branch Rickey
There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile. Camille Paglia
The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe. Walter Benjamin
Do not eat the strangers' bread as this diminishes your stature. Kurdish Proverb