inutility
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Origin of inutility
From the Latin word inūtilitās, dating back to 1590–1600. See inutile, -ity
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This little incident confirmed my opinion of the usefulness of poetry against the universal judgment which regards it as an inutility.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
We are doomed to pass a long winter of absolute inutility, if not of idleness, in comparative peril and privation; nevertheless the men seem very happy—thoughtless, of course, as true sailors always are.
From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by Francis Leopold McClintock
It was all very clean, but the room conveyed at the first glance an overpowering idea of its own absolute inutility and vanity.
From Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope
A very large amount of testimony, going to show the inefficiency and inutility of medicine, might be presented; but I have limited myself to a selection of some of the more striking and important.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
He resumed his writing, and Mrs. Clavering, after pausing a few moments, saw the inutility of urging anything further, and walked slowly and sadly back to the house.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie
Ulysses Aldrovandus was a celebrated naturalist of the sixteenth century, and his work on natural history, in thirteen folio volumes, contains with much that is valuable a large proportion of fables and inutilities.
From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
Let none therefore be surprised if our love fastens on these majestic dogmas, by which we are more and more overshadowed, on these higher inutilities which are our vocation.
From Underground Man by Gabriel Tarde
We never grudged millions to burrow beneath New York for light, or for drink or speed, why then should we grudge them for the beautiful inutilities that might make the surface of the city splendid.
From The Collectors by Frank Jewett Mather
A gentleman, on the contrary, in addition to his other noble inutilities, is useless as an almanac.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various
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