insignificancy
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Origin of insignificancy
First recorded in 1645–55; insignific(ant) + -ancy
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This gave me a perfect image of the insignificancy of the creatures who practise this enormity; and made me conclude, that it is ever want of sense makes a man guilty in this kind.
From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various
For my part, I never return so much into myself, as when I think of you, whose friendship is one of the best comforts I have for the insignificancy of myself.
From Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) by H. Wragg
The Lords of Trade blushed at their insignificancy, and Mr. Eden's appeal to the 2,500 volumes of our Reports, served only to excite a general laugh.
From Memoirs of My Life and Writings by Edward Gibbon
They considered not, that the very insignificancy of these ceremonies recommended them to the superstitious prelate, and made them appear the more peculiarly sacred and religious, as they could serve to no other purpose.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by David Hume
What matter its importance or its insignificancy, so that it be just.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
On my entrance, his highness motioned to me to sit beside him, and through the medium of the interpreters began with some commonplace courtly insignificancies, as a prelude to more interesting conversation.
From The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt
This was for Gibbon or Carlyle, rather than for my potboiling insignificancies.
From The Damned by Algernon Blackwood
It is therefore completely indifferent whether such insignificancies are duly vouched for by documents, or, as in the romance, invented to suit the character and ascribed to this or that name and circumstances.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
It is he who sits in busy and brooding anxiety over his speculations, wrinkled, perhaps, by care, and sobered by years into an utter distaste for the splendors and insignificancies of fashionable life.”
From Sowing and Reaping by Dwight Lyman Moody
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