insignificancy

Now, then, my very dear colleagues, who as shining luminaries guide the inferior bodies, it becomes you to examine and to use this work candidly, without regarding the meanness and insignificancy of the workman.

From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart

What matter its importance or its insignificancy, so that it be just.

From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde

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 E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

Others were less observed from their supposed comparative insignificancy; although, if453 you had attended the auctions, you would have found in them many very useful, and even rare and splendid, productions.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

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 Goold Brown

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 John Galt

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 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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 Dwight Lyman Moody

This was for Gibbon or Carlyle, rather than for my potboiling insignificancies.

From The Damned by Algernon Blackwood