Lexicographical Neighbors of Insignificances
Literary usage of Insignificances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1880)
"... in reality, all depended, and in comparison with which Whipple and the chain-
bridge were mere insignificances. The only approximation is the statement ..."
2. A Short History of the English People by John Richard Green (1908)
"The Church, predominant as its influence seemed at the close of the Revolution,
had sunk into political insignificances The bishops, who were now chosen ..."
3. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"Poor old fellow, these insignificances, and that he descends direct from Philip
the Magnanimous of Hessen (Luther's Philip, who insisted on the ..."
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