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noun

Importance n.

The quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance. "Thy own importance know, Nor bound thy narrow views to things below."

Subject; matter. (Obs.) "Upon importance of so slight and trivial a nature."

Import; meaning; significance. (Obs.) "The wisest beholder could not say if the importance were joy or sorrow."

Importunity; solicitation. (Obs.) "At our importance hither is he come."

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"Importance" Quotes from Famous Books

... be procured as to the origin of the game called Pope Joan, and (what is of more importance) of the above title, whether any such personage ever held the keys of St Peter and wore the tiara? If so, at what period and for what time, and what is known ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 • Various

... this crisis La Tour resolved to appeal to the government of Massachusetts for assistance. In 1630, the town of Boston was commenced on the peninsula of Shawmut, and was already a place of considerable commercial importance. Harvard College was already open, schools were established, town meetings were frequent, and a system of representative government was in existence. Not only so, the colonies of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Haven, and Plymouth had formed themselves ...

— Canada • J. G. Bourinot

... don't mean to say you attach any importance to vapourings like that? Why, there wasn't a thing the fellow couldn't have imagined from the newspapers, even the clumsy description ...

— The Poisoned Pen • Arthur B. Reeve

... supremacy, of the church; and his firm administration restored or extended some useful prerogatives which had been neglected by the feeble emperors of the West. He was not ignorant of the dignity and importance of the Roman pontiff, to whom the venerable name of Pope was now appropriated. The peace or the revolt of Italy might depend on the character of a wealthy and popular bishop, who claimed such ample dominion both in heaven and earth; who had ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 4 • Edward Gibbon

... magistrate, is very unwell just now, and very naturally so after an investigation of such length and importance as that which preceded the Boiscoran trial. We are told that he only awaits the decree of the court, to ask for a furlough and to go to one of the rural stations of ...

— Within an Inch of His Life • Emile Gaboriau

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