inutility

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But this is clearly quite a distinct matter from resisting the a priori generalization that all cases of apparent inutility must certainly be cases of real utility.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John

No words could express the dulness and inutility of a collection which should embrace all the Roxburghe and Pepys broadsides—a scope with which this publication was most undeservedly credited by an English journal.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

Public attention is in many cases being drawn to the inutility and injury of out-door relief.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various

This little incident confirmed my opinion of the usefulness of poetry against the universal judgment which regards it as an inutility.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo

In the edition from which my translation is chiefly made, four poetical quotations are here inserted on the subject of fate, and the inutility of anxious forebodings.

From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous