inutility
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But this is clearly quite a distinct matter from resisting the a priori generalization that all cases of apparent inutility must certainly be cases of real utility.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes
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 Mrs. Henry Wood
A very large amount of testimony, going to show the inefficiency and inutility of medicine, might be presented; but I have limited myself to a selection of some of the more striking and important.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
And have you not, while heartily wishing yourself in the saddle, felt the utter inutility of administering any counsels to the rider?
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever
He resumed his writing, and Mrs. Clavering, after pausing a few moments, saw the inutility of urging anything further, and walked slowly and sadly back to the house.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie
Ulysses Aldrovandus was a celebrated naturalist of the sixteenth century, and his work on natural history, in thirteen folio volumes, contains with much that is valuable a large proportion of fables and inutilities.
From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
We never grudged millions to burrow beneath New York for light, or for drink or speed, why then should we grudge them for the beautiful inutilities that might make the surface of the city splendid.
From The Collectors by Frank Jewett Mather
Let none therefore be surprised if our love fastens on these majestic dogmas, by which we are more and more overshadowed, on these higher inutilities which are our vocation.
From Underground Man by Gabriel Tarde
A gentleman, on the contrary, in addition to his other noble inutilities, is useless as an almanac.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various
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