insignificancy

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The insignificancy of my manners to the rest of the world makes the laughers call me a quidnunc, a phrase I shall never inquire what they mean by it.

From The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 by Aitken, George A.

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

The towers and western front were in a cold, gray tint: the houses, of inferior dimensions, were shrunk to insignificancy.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

Others were less observed from their supposed comparative insignificancy; although, if453 you had attended the auctions, you would have found in them many very useful, and even rare and splendid, productions.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

Greece shared in the general decay: her commerce and manufactures, being confined to supplying the consumption of a diminished and impoverished population, sunk into insignificancy.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various