insignificancy
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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 nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John
For my part, I never return so much into myself, as when I think of you, whose friendship is one of the best comforts I have for the insignificancy of myself.
From Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) by Wragg, H.
They considered not, that the very insignificancy of these ceremonies recommended them to the superstitious prelate, and made them appear the more peculiarly sacred and religious, as they could serve to no other purpose.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by Hume, David
It is calculated to keep me forever fixed in that state of useless and disgraceful insignificancy, which has been my lot for some years past.
From Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States by Seward, William Henry
It is therefore completely indifferent whether such insignificancies are duly vouched for by documents, or, as in the romance, invented to suit the character and ascribed to this or that name and circumstances.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
This was for Gibbon or Carlyle, rather than for my potboiling insignificancies.
From The Damned by Blackwood, Algernon
On my entrance, his highness motioned to me to sit beside him, and through the medium of the interpreters began with some commonplace courtly insignificancies, as a prelude to more interesting conversation.
From The Life of Lord Byron by Galt, John
It is he who sits in busy and brooding anxiety over his speculations, wrinkled, perhaps, by care, and sobered by years into an utter distaste for the splendors and insignificancies of fashionable life.”
From Sowing and Reaping by Moody, Dwight Lyman
