inutility

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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)

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

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

We shall first point out the inutility of distinguishing science from culture, education from instruction.

From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni

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