insignificancy
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Origin of insignificancy
First recorded in 1645–55; insignific(ant) + -ancy
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The rudiments of every art and science exhibit at first, to the learner, the appearance of littleness and insignificancy.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
The insignificancy of my manners to the rest of the world makes the laughers call me a quidnunc, a phrase I shall never inquire what they mean by it.
From The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 by Aitken, George A.
He had evaded this omnipresence by utter insignificancy!
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
Greece shared in the general decay: her commerce and manufactures, being confined to supplying the consumption of a diminished and impoverished population, sunk into insignificancy.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various
The revolution had entered into a new phase, the Legislative Assembly had become the Constituent Assembly, which despoiled the monarchy of the last appearance of power and degraded it to a mere insignificancy.
From Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
This was for Gibbon or Carlyle, rather than for my potboiling insignificancies.
From The Damned by Blackwood, Algernon
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 Galt, John
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 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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 Moody, Dwight Lyman
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