毫ごう末まつ

noun

minute amount; tiny bit; the slightest

Literary or formal noun for an extremely small quantity, often used in negative or emphatic contexts to mean 'not even a tiny bit'. Rare in everyday speech; more common equivalents include 少しも or わずか.

• 彼かれの言こと葉ばには毫ごう末まつの真しん実じつもなかった。

  There was not a grain of truth in his words.

• 毫ごう末まつの疑うたがいもなく、それは彼かれの作さく品ひんだ。

  Without the slightest doubt, that is his work.