insignificancy

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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

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

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

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

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