insignificancy

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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

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

Placed out of the reach of attack, both by remoteness and insignificancy, our only dread lay lest those supplies intended for our consumption should be captured.

From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Tench, Watkin

Pleased, as I gazed upon thy lofty brow Where Nature seems her loveliest robes to wear, I felt that Pride at such a scene must bow, And own its insignificancy there.

From Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life by Gurney, Eliza Paul

On arriving at the spot, it was distressing to observe the insignificancy of the place, with regard to such a melancholy event.

From Confessions of an Etonian by I. E. M.