insignificancy
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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 David Hume
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
As bravery is said to be a panoply, insignificancy is always a shelter.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson
For my part, I never return so much into myself, as when I think of you, whose friendship is one of the best comforts I have for the insignificancy of myself.
From Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) by H. Wragg
When, by them, Administration is convinced of its insignificancy, they are soon to be convinced of their own.
From Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc. by Henry Morley
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
This was for Gibbon or Carlyle, rather than for my potboiling insignificancies.
From The Damned by Algernon Blackwood
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
