insignificancy
Example Sentences
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There is but a step from conscious insignificancy to the loftiest pretension.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
What matter its importance or its insignificancy, so that it be just.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by Ryde, H. T.
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
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
