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significancy

[sig-nif-i-kuhn-see] / sɪgˈnɪf ɪ kən si /




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All this amorous and poetical caressing of the May discovers, in the twice resting the process of events in "The Knight's Tale" upon the observance of May-day, a significancy otherwise perhaps less evident.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various

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 Gossip, Giles

There is a great significancy in the names of Shakespeare's plays.

From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Hence, like the first, it may be postponed until we come to consider the true meaning and the real political significancy of the natural equality of all men.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by Elliott, E. N.

But I could discover no sign that they felt the real significancy of the words they had just heard.

From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by Wylie, James Aitken




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