significancy
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Now, the Pharisees, when they multiplied their washings of hands, of cups and pots, brazen vessels and tables, had the same respect of significancy before their eyes.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
But it seemed to catch the eye of the painter’s wife with a special significancy.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
“You are a very young man,” he repeated, “or you would have understood the significancy of the step.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
What is added in the Scripture narration of one of these latter cases will illustrate the significancy of this mode of investiture.
From Coronation Anecdotes by Giles Gossip
Association not only gives significancy to music, but contributes greatly to heighten its agreeable effect.
From Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 by Thomas Hanly Ball
Skyward ponderings by night, canny discoveries under foot by day, quickened his mind and sight to vast and to minute significancies, until they declared an Author known to him hitherto only by tradition.
From Strong Hearts by George Washington Cable