insignificance

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INSIGNIF'ICANCE INSIGNIF'ICANCY, noun [in and significance.] 1. Want of significance or meaning; as the insignificance of words or phrases. 2. Unimportance; want of force or effect; as the insignificance of human art or of ceremonies. 3. Want of weight; meanness.
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