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.
If you take notice, there is hardly a rich man in the world who has not such a led friend of small consideration, who is a darling for his insignificancy.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II by Lodge, Henry Cabot
As bravery is said to be a panoply, insignificancy is always a shelter.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel
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
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
