insignificancy

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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.

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 Hume, David

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

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)

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