immaterial
adjective
of no essential consequence; unimportant.
immaterially
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a word derived from
immaterial.
Example Sentences
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From an alltime low of 14.7 births per 1,000 population in 1932, the yardstick of the people's "birthjoy" climbed to 20.4 in 1939, sagged only immaterially to 18.8 in the first three years of war.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even the servant girl was away, which was a fact that not immaterially contributed to Keith's sense of security.
From The Soul of a Child by Edwin Björkman
We must conclude, therefore, that material things known must needs exist in the knower, not materially, but immaterially.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
For Plato, having observed that the intellectual soul has an immaterial nature, and an immaterial mode of knowledge, held that the forms of things known subsist immaterially.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
Edmund Kean was small in stature, though not so "immaterially" built as Lamb is said to have been.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
