significancyn.

Brit.

/sᵻɡˈnɪfᵻk(ə)nsi/, U.S.

/sᵻɡˈnɪfᵻkənsi/

Forms: 1500s significancye, 1500s–1600s significancie, 1600s– significancy.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin significantia , -ancy suffix.

Etymology: < classical Latin significantia significance n.; see -ancy suffix. Compare earlier signifiance n., significance n., signification n., signifying n.

1. = significance n. 1b. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > high significance, expressiveness > [noun]

significancy1577

significance1585

expressiveness1655

meaningness1753

pregnancy1839

ideality1845

meaningfulness1904

expressivity1944

1577 tr. Tertullian in H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. iii. sig. Ccc.iij/2 When the thing..cannot be rightly conceiued by our very senses and vnderstanding, howe shall it bee rightly named..? which while it is beyond vnderstanding, must needs also be aboue the significancie [L. significantiam] of the terme whereby it is named.

1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. xi. 338 S. Chrysostome..putteth such force and significancie in the Greeke worde.

1614 R. Carew Excellencie Eng. Tongue in W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 39 Neither may I omit the significancie of our prouerbes concise in words but plentifull in number.

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 142 It is of brave significancy to expresse the..cleansing quality of Christs blood.

1697 J. Dryden Postscr. to Rdr. in tr. Virgil Wks. 621 Antiquated Words..are never to be reviv'd, but when Sound or Significancy is wanting in the present Language.

1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §125. 143 By the Clearness and Significancy of what he Says.

1712 J. Swift Proposal for Eng. Tongue 20 Dunces of Figure, who had Credit enough to give Rise to some new Word,..though it had neither Humor, nor Significancy.

1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 363 Though its own beauty, simplicity, and natural significancy had pleaded less strongly in its behalf.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. ii. 51 ‘I will tell you in your private ear,’ replied she, wagging her turban three times with portentous significancy.

1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos xii. 162 This interpretation is brought out with greater force and significancy in the verse which follows.

1913 Mod. Philol. 10 19 The fullness and significancy of Spenser's descriptions is often owing to the prolixity of his stanza, and the multitude of his rhymes.

1967 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 26 61/2 Poetic figures being the means for securing emphasis, explicitness, significancy..must fulfil the purposes for which they are intended.

a. The quality of being significant or having meaning.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > [noun]

signifiancec1275

wita1340

understanding1340

significancea1400

interpretationc1400

sentence1402

signification?a1425

comprehensec1470

knowledging1532

meaning1600

conceit1607

significancy1618

signality1646

significativeness1652

valor1676

amount1678

significature1822

1618 T. Dighton Certain Reasons Private Christian 10 The next succession of these seas..shall think it fit..to bring in Images into our churches, pressing only the old pretence ornamenti gratia, and the crosse into the Lords supper for Reverence, spittle and salte into Baptisme only for significancy and mysterie.

1631 J. Burges Answer Reioyned 53 Significancy maketh a Ceremony to bee evill.

1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 247 The imposing of a significant Ceremony, is no more than to impose significancy upon a word.

1707 J. Norris Pract. Treat. Humility vii. 273 As there is significancy in motion, so there are some passions which motion only can speak.

1754 J. Edwards Careful Enq. Freedom of Will ii. x. 96 Again (if Language is of any Significancy at all) If Motives excite Volition, then they are the Cause of it's being excited.

1816 J. Gilchrist Philos. Etymol. 23 As there is a relation between these two methods of significancy, the one may be employed to explain the other.

1850 J. S. Blackie in tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas II. 296 The significancy of a name affords of itself no presumption against its historical reality.

1919 Burlington Mag. Mar. 92/2 Those who are acquainted with the ingenious methods employed..to hint at a date by the introduction into the picture of one of the Zodiacal signs will see in this a significancy that might escape the ordinary observer.

1996 D. Leith & D. Graddol English (2003) iv. 143 During this period, existing words acquired more meanings, thus increasing significancy.

b. Meaning, import. Also: a particular meaning. Frequently with of. Cf. significance n. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > drift, tenor, purport > [noun]

sentence?c1225

intent1303

tenora1387

intendment1390

strengthc1390

porta1393

meaningc1395

process1395

continencea1398

purposec1400

substance1415

purport1422

matterc1450

storyc1450

containing1477

contenu1477

retinue1484

fecka1500

content1513

drift1526

intention1532

vein1543

importing1548

scope1549

importance1552

course1553

force1555

sense?1556

file1560

intelliment?1562

proporta1578

preport1583

import1588

importment1602

carriage1604

morala1616

significancy1641

amount1678

purview1688

sentiment1713

capacity1720

spirit1742

message1828

thrust1968

messaging1977

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 50 If we withall take the word Martyr in the fullest importance and significancy of the word.

1668 J. Howe Blessedness of Righteous Disc. (1825) 6 The word..hath the significancy we here give it.

1676 E. Stillingfleet Def. Disc. Idolatry i. ii. 222 If he declares he intends it for the honour of another, he takes away by his words the significancy of his action.

1726 G. Odingsells Capricious Lovers i. ii. 7 Is not she the Town-bred Lady, who..refines upon the Significancy of Phrases till she resolves common Conversation into Obscenity?

1774 Chesterfield's Lett. (1792) I. Advt. p. xi They are so varied and their significancy thrown into..so many different lights, that they could not be altered.

1786 J. H. Tooke Επεα Πτεροεντα ii. 57 The right use, significancy, and force of all words except the names of Ideas.

1840 Blackwood's Mag. 47 153 These symbols had lost their significancy to the mob.

1866 R. S. Candlish 1st Epist. John xv. 167 Such is the import and significancy of the proposition that Jesus is the Christ.

1916 J. Walsh Mass & Vestments Catholic Church xxi. 266 What is the significancy of the Altar? According to the Roman Pontifical.., the altar is a figure of Christ.

2005 Cornishman (Nexis) 6 Oct. 25 A day long workshop..on the special significancies of different precious and semi-precious stones.

a. An important person or thing. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important

muchity1534

importance1570

something1582

significancy1656

thing1748

great1787

important1824

big stuff1883

big whoop1988

1656 A. Cowley Davideis iv. 152 (note) , in Poems That Oyle mixt with any other liquor, still gets uppermost, is perhaps one of the chiefest Significancies in the Ceremony of Anointing Kings and Priests.

a1770 A. Hervey Jrnl. (1953) (modernized text) 38 Admiral Davers, whom Lord Winchelsea once to me very characterisingly called ‘that Insignificant Significancy’.

1914 G. W. Cable Gideon's Band 169 She strenuously kept her ardor centred on the gravest significancies of the hour.

1950 N. Coward Diary 16 Feb. (2000) 143 The theatre, which before was so vital and competitive and fast-moving, is now sodden with insignificant significancies.

b. Importance, consequence; = significance n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun]

mund?c1250

steemc1330

greatnessc1410

substancec1425

importance1485

weight1521

moment1522

weightiness1530

importancy1531

importunance1546

import1548

reckoning1582

sequel1588

ponderosity1589

valure1594

consequence1597

significance1597

circumstance1599

consequent1599

eminency1622

importmenta1625

concernment1626

consideration1634

telling1636

signification1645

considerableness1647

concerningness1657

nearness1679

significancy1679

respectability1769

interest1809

noteworthiness1852

portee1893

valency1897

1679 in Somers Tracts (1748) I. 75 Of what little Significancy the Resolves of the Council..are to the imposing a Supreme Ruler upon the Nation.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 317. ¶2 They are neither miss'd in the Commonwealth, nor lamented by private Persons. Their Actions are of no Significancy to Mankind.

1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. Ded. p. iv This opinion of our own significancy will however be corrected by the judgement of the public.

1847 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) III. 71 Zwingli..kept mainly in view the practical significancy of scripture as a whole.

1864 J. H. Newman Apologia (1904) ii. 39/1 Men on either side..attached no significancy to the fact.

1924 San Antonio (Texas) Express 5 Dec. 4/6 The significancy of such a large co-operative marketing movement is the more apparent, when it is observed [etc.].

2003 Winnipeg Sun (Nexis) 30 Apr. 14 The significancy of the issue, the gravity of it and the scope of it, went way beyond health care.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	significancy
释义	significancyn. Brit. /sᵻɡˈnɪfᵻk(ə)nsi/, U.S. /sᵻɡˈnɪfᵻkənsi/ Forms: 1500s significancye, 1500s–1600s significancie, 1600s– significancy. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin significantia , -ancy suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin significantia significance n.; see -ancy suffix. Compare earlier signifiance n., significance n., signification n., signifying n. 1. = significance n. 1b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > high significance, expressiveness > [noun] significancy1577 significance1585 expressiveness1655 meaningness1753 pregnancy1839 ideality1845 meaningfulness1904 expressivity1944 1577 tr. Tertullian in H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. iii. sig. Ccc.iij/2 When the thing..cannot be rightly conceiued by our very senses and vnderstanding, howe shall it bee rightly named..? which while it is beyond vnderstanding, must needs also be aboue the significancie [L. significantiam] of the terme whereby it is named. 1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. xi. 338 S. Chrysostome..putteth such force and significancie in the Greeke worde. 1614 R. Carew Excellencie Eng. Tongue in W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 39 Neither may I omit the significancie of our prouerbes concise in words but plentifull in number. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 142 It is of brave significancy to expresse the..cleansing quality of Christs blood. 1697 J. Dryden Postscr. to Rdr. in tr. Virgil Wks. 621 Antiquated Words..are never to be reviv'd, but when Sound or Significancy is wanting in the present Language. 1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §125. 143 By the Clearness and Significancy of what he Says. 1712 J. Swift Proposal for Eng. Tongue 20 Dunces of Figure, who had Credit enough to give Rise to some new Word,..though it had neither Humor, nor Significancy. 1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 363 Though its own beauty, simplicity, and natural significancy had pleaded less strongly in its behalf. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. ii. 51 ‘I will tell you in your private ear,’ replied she, wagging her turban three times with portentous significancy. 1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos xii. 162 This interpretation is brought out with greater force and significancy in the verse which follows. 1913 Mod. Philol. 10 19 The fullness and significancy of Spenser's descriptions is often owing to the prolixity of his stanza, and the multitude of his rhymes. 1967 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 26 61/2 Poetic figures being the means for securing emphasis, explicitness, significancy..must fulfil the purposes for which they are intended. 2. a. The quality of being significant or having meaning. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > [noun] signifiancec1275 wita1340 understanding1340 significancea1400 interpretationc1400 sentence1402 signification?a1425 comprehensec1470 knowledging1532 meaning1600 conceit1607 significancy1618 signality1646 significativeness1652 valor1676 amount1678 significature1822 1618 T. Dighton Certain Reasons Private Christian 10 The next succession of these seas..shall think it fit..to bring in Images into our churches, pressing only the old pretence ornamenti gratia, and the crosse into the Lords supper for Reverence, spittle and salte into Baptisme only for significancy and mysterie. 1631 J. Burges Answer Reioyned 53 Significancy maketh a Ceremony to bee evill. 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 247 The imposing of a significant Ceremony, is no more than to impose significancy upon a word. 1707 J. Norris Pract. Treat. Humility vii. 273 As there is significancy in motion, so there are some passions which motion only can speak. 1754 J. Edwards Careful Enq. Freedom of Will ii. x. 96 Again (if Language is of any Significancy at all) If Motives excite Volition, then they are the Cause of it's being excited. 1816 J. Gilchrist Philos. Etymol. 23 As there is a relation between these two methods of significancy, the one may be employed to explain the other. 1850 J. S. Blackie in tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas II. 296 The significancy of a name affords of itself no presumption against its historical reality. 1919 Burlington Mag. Mar. 92/2 Those who are acquainted with the ingenious methods employed..to hint at a date by the introduction into the picture of one of the Zodiacal signs will see in this a significancy that might escape the ordinary observer. 1996 D. Leith & D. Graddol English (2003) iv. 143 During this period, existing words acquired more meanings, thus increasing significancy. b. Meaning, import. Also: a particular meaning. Frequently with of. Cf. significance n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > drift, tenor, purport > [noun] sentence?c1225 intent1303 tenora1387 intendment1390 strengthc1390 porta1393 meaningc1395 process1395 continencea1398 purposec1400 substance1415 purport1422 matterc1450 storyc1450 containing1477 contenu1477 retinue1484 fecka1500 content1513 drift1526 intention1532 vein1543 importing1548 scope1549 importance1552 course1553 force1555 sense?1556 file1560 intelliment?1562 proporta1578 preport1583 import1588 importment1602 carriage1604 morala1616 significancy1641 amount1678 purview1688 sentiment1713 capacity1720 spirit1742 message1828 thrust1968 messaging1977 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 50 If we withall take the word Martyr in the fullest importance and significancy of the word. 1668 J. Howe Blessedness of Righteous Disc. (1825) 6 The word..hath the significancy we here give it. 1676 E. Stillingfleet Def. Disc. Idolatry i. ii. 222 If he declares he intends it for the honour of another, he takes away by his words the significancy of his action. 1726 G. Odingsells Capricious Lovers i. ii. 7 Is not she the Town-bred Lady, who..refines upon the Significancy of Phrases till she resolves common Conversation into Obscenity? 1774 Chesterfield's Lett. (1792) I. Advt. p. xi They are so varied and their significancy thrown into..so many different lights, that they could not be altered. 1786 J. H. Tooke Επεα Πτεροεντα ii. 57 The right use, significancy, and force of all words except the names of Ideas. 1840 Blackwood's Mag. 47 153 These symbols had lost their significancy to the mob. 1866 R. S. Candlish 1st Epist. John xv. 167 Such is the import and significancy of the proposition that Jesus is the Christ. 1916 J. Walsh Mass & Vestments Catholic Church xxi. 266 What is the significancy of the Altar? According to the Roman Pontifical.., the altar is a figure of Christ. 2005 Cornishman (Nexis) 6 Oct. 25 A day long workshop..on the special significancies of different precious and semi-precious stones. 3. a. An important person or thing. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important muchity1534 importance1570 something1582 significancy1656 thing1748 great1787 important1824 big stuff1883 big whoop1988 1656 A. Cowley Davideis iv. 152 (note) , in Poems That Oyle mixt with any other liquor, still gets uppermost, is perhaps one of the chiefest Significancies in the Ceremony of Anointing Kings and Priests. a1770 A. Hervey Jrnl. (1953) (modernized text) 38 Admiral Davers, whom Lord Winchelsea once to me very characterisingly called ‘that Insignificant Significancy’. 1914 G. W. Cable Gideon's Band 169 She strenuously kept her ardor centred on the gravest significancies of the hour. 1950 N. Coward Diary 16 Feb. (2000) 143 The theatre, which before was so vital and competitive and fast-moving, is now sodden with insignificant significancies. b. Importance, consequence; = significance n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] mund?c1250 steemc1330 greatnessc1410 substancec1425 importance1485 weight1521 moment1522 weightiness1530 importancy1531 importunance1546 import1548 reckoning1582 sequel1588 ponderosity1589 valure1594 consequence1597 significance1597 circumstance1599 consequent1599 eminency1622 importmenta1625 concernment1626 consideration1634 telling1636 signification1645 considerableness1647 concerningness1657 nearness1679 significancy1679 respectability1769 interest1809 noteworthiness1852 portee1893 valency1897 1679 in Somers Tracts (1748) I. 75 Of what little Significancy the Resolves of the Council..are to the imposing a Supreme Ruler upon the Nation. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 317. ¶2 They are neither miss'd in the Commonwealth, nor lamented by private Persons. Their Actions are of no Significancy to Mankind. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. Ded. p. iv This opinion of our own significancy will however be corrected by the judgement of the public. 1847 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) III. 71 Zwingli..kept mainly in view the practical significancy of scripture as a whole. 1864 J. H. Newman Apologia (1904) ii. 39/1 Men on either side..attached no significancy to the fact. 1924 San Antonio (Texas) Express 5 Dec. 4/6 The significancy of such a large co-operative marketing movement is the more apparent, when it is observed [etc.]. 2003 Winnipeg Sun (Nexis) 30 Apr. 14 The significancy of the issue, the gravity of it and the scope of it, went way beyond health care. 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