inutility

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This little incident confirmed my opinion of the usefulness of poetry against the universal judgment which regards it as an inutility.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo

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

At the time of his death he was engaged in sketching the lives of the Irish viceroys, with the view of showing the inutility of that high post.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) by Various

But let me warn you once more against the inutility of the step you would take.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Lever, Charles James

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