Meaning of significancy | Babel Free

Definitions

Significance.

countable, dated, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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 corrected, that I hope⟳ I ſhall be pardon’d, if I have⟳ in the Third Book dwelt long on this Subject; and endeavoured to make⟳ it ſo plain, that neither the inverateneſs^([sic – meaning inveterateness]) of the Miſchief, nor the prevalency of the Faſhion, ſhall be any Excuſe for thoſe, who will not take⟳ Care about the meaning of their own⟳ Words, and will not ſuffer the Significancy of their Expreſſions to be enquired into.”

“[…] 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 Language.”

“The object of rhetoric is persuasion,—of logic, conviction,—of grammar, significancy.”

“With this brain I must work⟳, in order⟳ to give⟳ significancy and value to the few facts which I possess⟳.”

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