insignificancy

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The rudiments of every art and science exhibit at first, to the learner, the appearance of littleness and insignificancy.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

The Lords of Trade blushed at their insignificancy, and Mr. Eden's appeal to the 2,500 volumes of our Reports, served only to excite a general laugh.

From Memoirs of My Life and Writings by Gibbon, Edward

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

This gave me a perfect image of the insignificancy of the creatures who practise this enormity; and made me conclude, that it is ever want of sense makes a man guilty in this kind.

From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various

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