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significancy

significancy noun: significance.

Noun

significancy (countable and uncountable, plural significancies)

  1. (dated) Significance.
    • To break in upon this Sanctuary of Vanity and Ignorance, will be, I ſuppoſe, ſome Service to humane Understanding: Though ſo few are apt to think, they deceive, or are deceived in the Uſe of Words; or that the Language of the Sect they are of, has any Faults in it, which ought to be examined or...1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “The Epistle to the Reader”, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book I
    • […] I have added to both of them [language and poetry] in the choice of Words, and Harmony of Numbers which were wanting, […] One is for raking in [Geoffrey] Chaucer (our Engliſh Ennius) for antiquated Words, which are never to be reviv'd, but when Sound or Significancy is wanting in the preſent...1697, Virgil, “Postscript to the Reader”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 621

Examples of significancy in a sentence

  • The object of rhetoric is persuasion,—of logic, conviction,—of grammar, significancy.1830 September 23, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Logic”, in H[enry] N[elson] C[oleridge], editor, Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late...
  • With this brain I must work, in order to give significancy and value to the few facts which I possess.1852, Thomas De Quincey, “Sir William Hamilton”, in Hogg's Instructor:

Forms of significancy

pluralsignificancies

Origin of significancy

From Latin significantia + -ancy.

Questions about significancy

What does significancy mean?
Significancy means significance.
How do you use significancy in a sentence?
The object of rhetoric is persuasion,—of logic, conviction,—of grammar, significancy.
What part of speech is significancy?
Significancy is a noun.
What is the plural of significancy?
The plural of significancy is significancies.

Words near significancy in the dictionary

  1. significance
  2. significance level
  3. significance levels
  4. significances
  5. significancies
  6. significancy
  7. significand
  8. significands
  9. significant
  10. significant digit
  11. significant digits

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