significancy
Example Sentences
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When an ancient word, for its sound and significancy, deserves to be revived, I have that reasonable veneration for antiquity to restore it.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
I had had a touch of real, actual practice, and could already understand and appreciate many suggestions which had heretofore been of doubtful significancy.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various
The elder children, Julia and Mary, in language of beautiful significancy, have “gone before.”
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
But, indeed, neither is the language deficient in fanciful significancy, nor the measure in good old melody.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various
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 Stevenson, Robert Louis
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