insignificancy
Example Sentences
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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
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
When, by them, administration is convinced of its insignificancy, they are soon to be convinced of their own.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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
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
