importancy
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Medieval Latin importantia.[1]
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Noun[edit]
importancy (countable and uncountable, plural importancies) (obsolete or nonstandard)
- Importance; significance.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 10:
- […] we conſider
The importancy of Cypreſſe to the Turke: […]
- That which is important.
- 1642, Thomas Fuller, “The wise Statesman”, in The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC, book IV, paragraph 7, page 259:
- Generall matters he is as liberall to impart, as carefull to conceal importancies.
References[edit]
- ^ “importancy, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- “importancy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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