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.
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 Stewart, Alexander
Many I know will be inclined to smile at the insignificancy of the cause pointed out.
From The Infant System For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age by Wilderspin, Samuel
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
Pleased, as I gazed upon thy lofty brow Where Nature seems her loveliest robes to wear, I felt that Pride at such a scene must bow, And own its insignificancy there.
From Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life by Gurney, Eliza Paul
