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/səgnˈɪfɪkəns/ /sɪgnˈɪfɪkəns/ Listen

noun

Significancy, Significance n.

The quality or state of being significant.

That which is signified; meaning; import; as, the significance of a nod, of a motion of the hand, or of a word or expression.

Importance; moment; weight; consequence. "With this brain I must work, in order to give significancy and value to the few facts which I possess."

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Etymology of 'Significance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... with the latter of these two classes. 'Presumptuous sins' does not, perhaps, convey to an ordinary reader the whole significance of the phrase, for it may be taken to define a single class of sins—namely, those of pride or insolence. What is really meant is just the opposite of 'secret sins'—all sorts of evil which, whatever may be their motives and other qualities, have this in common, that the doer, ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... Mayor Packard's eye showed sympathy, but the demands of the moment were too great for him to give to those pathetic words the full significance which I suddenly suspected them to hold. As I led her tottering figure down the step and turned toward her door I ...

— The Mayor's Wife • Anna Katharine Green

... Carteret baby Theodore Felix. Theodore was a family name, and had been borne by the eldest son for several generations, the major himself being a second son. Having thus given the child two beautiful names, replete with religious and sentimental significance, they ...

— The Marrow of Tradition • Charles W. Chesnutt

... the next chapter) to point out these astronomical references—which are full of significance and poetry; but with a recommendation at the same time to the reader not to forget the poetry and ...

— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter

... particular the learned Dr. SHADWELL denounced them with great severity in a leading review, but with little result. They bedizened themselves with frippery, shrieked like parrots on all occasions and interpreted the motto of the time, "Carry On," in a sense deplorably remote from its higher significance. ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Nov 21, 1917 • Various

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