Significancy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Significancy is a noun meaning (dated) Significance.
Meaning
(dated) Significance.
Example Sentences
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.
[…] 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.
Word Forms
- significancies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include signification, denotement, difference, signalment, effect, indication.
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