insignificancy
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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 Wragg, H.
The Lords of Trade blushed at their insignificancy, and Mr. Eden's appeal to the 2,500 volumes of our Reports, served only to excite a general laugh.
From Memoirs of My Life and Writings by Gibbon, Edward
If you take notice, there is hardly a rich man in the world who has not such a led friend of small consideration, who is a darling for his insignificancy.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II by Lodge, Henry Cabot
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 Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
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 Johnson, Samuel
