insignificancy

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Placed out of the reach of attack, both by remoteness and insignificancy, our only dread lay lest those supplies intended for our consumption should be captured.

From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Tench, Watkin

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.

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

Give her a true conception of the vanity, folly, and insignificancy of all human things; and strengthen her so as to beget in her a sincere love of Thee in the midst of her sufferings. 

From The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces by Swift, Jonathan

If you take notice, there is hardly a rich man in the world who has not such a led friend of small consideration, who is a darling for his insignificancy.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II by Lodge, Henry Cabot