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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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"Significance" Quotes from Famous Books

... and fought His terrible battle. Forgotten for a brief space were his own trials as he pored over that sacred page. How often had he read that story, and meditated upon every word, but never before did he realize the full significance of the scene. "Wonderful, wonderful," he murmured again, as he reverently closed the Book. "Thank God—oh, thank God for that life of suffering and sorrow! He knows our human needs. He trod the winepress alone, and must I, His unworthy servant, expect to escape? ...

— The Fourth Watch • H. A. Cody

... knew that they were sending Brown on a man-hunt. They knew that the results might mean bloodshed. They knew, as individuals, exactly what was being said and what was being planned. Its details they did not wish to know. The moral significance—the big moral significance of the deed was something apart from the bloody details. The Great Deed could be justified by the Higher Law, the Greater Glory of God. They were twisting the moral universe into accord with the elemental impulse of the brute ...

— The Man in Gray • Thomas Dixon

... phrases; he could not have distinguished one from the other. Hebrew and Chinese, Hungarian and Pushtu would be pretty much alike to an agricultural laborer; if he cared to listen he might detect some general differences in sound, but all four tongues would be equally devoid of significance. ...

— The Hill of Dreams • Arthur Machen

... a little before uttering the last sentence which gave his assertion a special significance. Malcolm eyed ...

— The Book of All-Power • Edgar Wallace

... these very properly at last, and you must have seen their significance. It is my spiritual and moral lameness, however, that now troubles me most, Miss Mayhew. When lying at the bottom of that ravine, expecting death, I vowed, like most sinners in similar circumstances, I suppose, that if I ever escaped I would become a Christian ...

— A Face Illumined • E. P. Roe

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