insignificancy
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The towers and western front were in a cold, gray tint: the houses, of inferior dimensions, were shrunk to insignificancy.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
On arriving at the spot, it was distressing to observe the insignificancy of the place, with regard to such a melancholy event.
From Confessions of an Etonian by I. E. M.
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.
There is but a step from conscious insignificancy to the loftiest pretension.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
When, by them, administration is convinced of its insignificancy, they are soon to be convinced of their own.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
