inutility

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Certainly we are drifted upon the quicksands of uncertainty by such a display of the miracle-working power, and are obnoxious to most fatal deception, which proves the total inutility and futility of such prodigies.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey

He shouted, and called, and thumped, just as you or I might have done, without any regard to its manifest inutility.

From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry

In the edition from which my translation is chiefly made, four poetical quotations are here inserted on the subject of fate, and the inutility of anxious forebodings.

From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous

To the present day this opinion has prevailed to a revolting degree, and it is no easy matter for the humane physician to convince a keeper of the cruelty or inutility of this practice.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

They do not, at first blush, appear to discharge any very great or necessary function in life; but we must by no means, from that, infer their inutility.

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James