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The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note.
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Significance or prominence.
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Personal status or standing.
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Something of importance.
Examples of importance in a Sentence
The importance of this cannot be overestimated.
We each understood the drop-dead importance of absolute privacy.
Breda is the next town in importance to the capital.
Mr. Westlake taught me the importance of setting up each and every shot.
She wrote to him formal, monotonous, and dry letters, to which she attached no importance herself, and in the rough copies of which the countess corrected her mistakes in spelling.
Nothing in life seemed to him of much importance, and under the influence of the depression that possessed him he valued neither his liberty nor his resolution to punish his wife.
It is of dire importance.
What they hadn't observed was how she could quietly and respectfully maintain her importance in the spousal role.
Surely he understood the importance – both to her and the church.
Bee-farming is of some importance.
It all boiled down to money – who had a paycheck to measure the importance of their labor and who didn't.
Bergen-opZoom had originally a more maritime importance.
Alkmaar derives its chief importance from being the centre of the flourishing butter and cheese trade of this region of Holland.
He described it as barren and sterile, and almost devoid of animals, the only one of any importance somewhat resembling a raccoon - a strange creature, which advanced by great bounds or leaps instead of walking, using only its hind legs, and covering 12 or 15 ft.
Next in importance ranks the Banas, which rises in the south-west near Kankroli in Udaipur.
In 1904, during the RussoJapanese war, war news was transmitted for The Times by wireless telegraphy, the enormous importance of which in naval strategy was abundantly demonstrated.
Then she added, as if dismissing the importance of so dramatic a change, "After all, if I'm starting a new life, I might as well change everything."
He became a notary and a person of some importance in the city, and was sent in 1343 on a public errand to Pope Clement VI.
Other river ports, of less importance, are Concordia on the Uruguay river, San Nicolas and Campana on the Parana river, Santa Fe on the Salado, a few miles from the Parana, the city of Parana on the Parana river, and Gualeguay on the Gualeguay river.
The advance made in agricultural industry also is of very great importance.
The sponge fisheries are of considerable importance.
There are no ruins of any importance on the site of either Ialysus or Camirus, but excavations at the latter place have produced valuable and interesting results in the way of ancient vases and other antiquities, which are now in the British Museum.
There are no other rivers of importance in South Australia, but the Torrens and the Gawler may be mentioned.
The only town of any importance in the island is the capital, Rhodes, which stands at the north-east extremity.
In the reign of Augustus, Agrippa fixed the newly mixed colony of Suevi and Menapii at Tournai, which continued throughout the period of Roman occupation to be of importance.
The history of Calatia is practically that of its more powerful neighbour Capua, but as it lay near the point where the Via Appia turns east and enters the mountains, it had some strategic importance.
Numerous small islands lie off the western coast, but none has any commercial importance.
Although indications of silver abound in all the other states, no fields of great importance have yet been discovered.
The yield of tin in Victoria is very small, and until lately no fields of importance have been discovered; but towards the latter end of 1890 extensive deposits were reported to exist in the Gippsland district - at Omeo and Tarwin.
The great navigator's second voyage, undertaken in 1772, with the " Resolution " and the " Adventure," is of less importance.
His journey ranks almost with Forrest's in the importance of its results and the success with which the appalling difficulties of the journey were overcome.
Alive to the importance of the trade, the South Australian government despatched Hiibbe from Oodnadatta to Coolgardie.
In the northern Netherlands generally up to the end of the 14th century the towns had no great political weight; their importance depended upon their river commerce and their markets.
Before the accession of Charles, the only son of Philip, two steps had been taken of great importance in the direction of unification.
The duties of this minister were of special importance, for it was to the Netherlands that Charles looked for much of the resources wherewith to carry on his many wars.
Naïve materialism is due to a cause which still, perhaps, has no small power, the natural difficulty which persons who have had no philosophic training experience in observing and appreciating the importance of the immaterial facts of consciousness.
The importance of the Malay Peninsula, as has been noted, consisted in the privilege which its locality conferred upon it of being the distributing centre of the spices brought thither from the Moluccas en route for India and Europe.
The largest granite quarries are near Barre, Washington county, a city which owes its importance to the quarries.
The only river with traffic of commercial importance is Otter Creek, flowing northwards into the southern part of Lake Champlain and having a navigable length of 8 m.
Algiers, however, continued of comparatively little importance until after the expulsion from Spain of the Moors, many of whom sought an asylum in the city.
Enniskillen (the county town, pop. 5412) is the only town of importance, the rest being little more than villages.
It remained in the hands of the Romans during both the Punic and the Social Wars, and was a fortress of importance to them.
Its importance is vouched for by the many remains of antiquity which it possesses, of which the most famous is the triumphal arch erected in honour of Trajan by the senate and people of Rome in A.D.
It was among the towns that had the right of coinage, and it manufactured carts, baskets, &c. Cicero speaks of it as a place of some importance.
Of still greater importance for the history of Napoleon are Fain's Memoires, which were published posthumously in 1908; they relate more particularly to the last five years of the empire, and give a detailed picture of the emperor at work on his correspondence among his confidential secretaries.
Some oaks are of indirect importance from products formed by their insect enemies.
Cromwell himself, however, seems to have regarded the question of title as of secondary importance, as merely (to use his own words) "a feather in the hat," "a shining bauble for crowds to gaze at or kneel to."
Nothing is known about the relative importance of these two waves.
The importance of Siger in philosophy lies in his acceptance of Averroism in its entirety, which drew upon him the opposition of Albertus Magnus and Aquinas.
It will give some idea of the importance of the town to mention that it had its own maritime law, known as Droit maritime de Damme.