insignificancy

The left newspapers saw it as a way to punish Zapatero for pulling out of Iraq, while the center-right newspapers saw it as a sign of further Spanish international insignificancy under Zapatero.

Fact checking the VP debate. Ann Althouse 2008

Which insignificancy of language, though I cannot note it for false philosophy, yet it hath a quality, not only to hide the truth, but also to make men think they have it, and desist from further search.

Leviathan 2007

Placed out of the reach of attack, both by remoteness and insignificancy, our only dread lay lest those supplies intended for our consumption should be captured.

The Settlement at Port Jackson 2003

The argument may fairly be extended to women; for, seldom occupied by serious business, the pursuit of pleasure gives that insignificancy to their character which renders the society of the great so insipid.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 2002

The Lords of Trade blushed at their insignificancy, and Mr. Eden's appeal to the 2,500 volumes of our Reports, served only to excite a general laugh.

Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994

When Nathanael said, [John 1: 46] "Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?" he does not seem there to reflect so much upon the smallness and insignificancy of the town, as the looseness and depravity of its manners.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

The insignificancy of my manners to the rest of the world makes the laughers call me a _quidnunc_, a phrase I shall never inquire what they mean by it.

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

But I will forget him, and give my hand to the courteous Umbra; he is a fine man indeed, but the soft creature bows below my apron-string before he takes it; but after the first ceremonies, he is as familiar as my physician, and his insignificancy makes me half ready to complain to him of all I would to my doctor.

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

Cleveland, had often mentioned him, without in any respect diminishing the insignificancy with which fame insinuated he had conducted himself in those amorous encounters: she nevertheless had the greatest curiosity to see a man, whose entire person, she thought, must be a moving trophy, and monument of the favours and freedoms of the fair sex.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

Unless this were done the small States would be reduced to entire insignificancy, and encouragement given to the importation of slaves.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 Various