insignificancy

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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

Others were less observed from their supposed comparative insignificancy; although, if453 you had attended the auctions, you would have found in them many very useful, and even rare and splendid, productions.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

Now, then, my very dear colleagues, who as shining luminaries guide the inferior bodies, it becomes you to examine and to use this work candidly, without regarding the meanness and insignificancy of the workman.

From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Stewart, Alexander

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

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