insignificancy
Example Sentences
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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
A general fit of piety bespoke the general dread; and they who had before been chiefly intent upon establishing their importance with their fellow-travellers, seemed now feelingly convinced of their own dependence and insignificancy.
From Discipline by Brunton, Mary
It is calculated to keep me forever fixed in that state of useless and disgraceful insignificancy, which has been my lot for some years past.
From Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States by Seward, William Henry
I must beg you also to accept my insignificancy.
From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Nohl, Ludwig
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
