Word Finder - significance

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The extent to which something matters; importance

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As a juror your opinion is of great significance for the outcome of the trial.

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the significance of a gesture

She ignored the significance in his tone.

What is the significance of this?

It had to hold some great significance to her.

She saw her husband, but did not realize the significance of his appearance before her now.

Did humans understand both their universal significance and their individual insignificance?

That full moon as well as new moon had a religious significance among the ancient Hebrews seems to follow from the fact that, when the great agricultural feasts were fixed to set days, the full moon was chosen.

The new name nabhi' became necessary to express this function of more exalted significance, in which human personality played its larger role.

This accessory pore is not of uniform significance.

He imparted to the title a grander significance out of the riches of his personality.

Jennifer, ignorant to the significance of the second entrance, expressed little interest in the opening.

In medieval France the significance of the title of count varied with the power of those who bore it; in modern France it varies with its historical associations.

Another fact is of great significance in this connection.

Its wider historic significance - it was felt by its author to be adapted to the needs of the Church at large, and was generally welcomed as such - is great but hard to determine in detail.'

When Pierre came up the count was gazing straight at him, but with a look the significance of which could not be understood by mortal man.

Orseolo's victory was commemorated and its significance affirmed by the magnificent symbolical ceremony of the "wedding of the sea" (Sposalizio del Mar), celebrated henceforward every Ascension day.

It is obvious that if the derivation be correct, the significance of the name, which in itself denotes only " He falls" or "He fells," must be learned, if at all, from early Israelitish conceptions of the nature of Yahweh rather than from etymology.

There is, however, no certain evidence that the Israelites in historical times had any consciousness of the primitive significance of the name.

Under an apparently uniform and stable system of social regulation there was much variation and movement, the significance of which it is impossible to estimate.

The significance of the amount of money involved varies greatly for different trades, and can only be understood by reference to the character and habits of the people concerned.

No explanation of the industrial situation in Germany, for example, would be intelligible or satisfactory even from the economic point of view which ignored the significance of the political conditions which Germans have to deal with.

There is no subject of human study which may not be at some time or other of economic significance, and anything which affects the character, the ideals or the environment of man may make it necessary to modify our assumptions and our reasoning with regard to his conduct in economic affairs.

In common with other sciences, economics makes use of " abstractions"; but if for some problems we employ symbolic processes of reasoning, we must keep clearly in view the limits of their significance, and neither endow the symbols with attributes they can never possess, nor lose sight of the realities behind them.

The conclusions of such a work are of wider significance than the assumptions we attribute to the author would warrant.

The same may be said of another subject, too frequently neglected by earlier writers, to which due significance has been given in the best recent work, namely, time in relation to value.

There is no reason in the actual significance of the word why the term " proboscis " should be applied to an alternately introversible and eversible tube connected with an animal's body, and yet such is a very customary use of the term.

The most convincing proof of this is that Origen (i) takes the idea of the immutability of God as the regulating idea of his system, and (2) deprives the historical "Word made flesh" of all significance for the true Gnostic. To him Christ appears simply as the Logos who is with the Father from eternity, and works from all eternity, to whom alone the instructed Christian directs his thoughts, requiring nothing more than a perfect - i.e.

Only by degrees did the events of the 19th of Brumaire stand out in their real significance; for the new consuls, installed at the Luxemburg palace, and somewhat later at the Tuileries, took care that the new constitution, which they along with the two commissions were now secretly drawing up, should not be promulgated until Paris and France had settled down to the ordinary life of pleasure and toil.

The significance of this new orientation was at once perceived.

The original significance of the name remains in dispute, but the first of the family to whom it was applied was Hugh, who was elected king of the Franks in 987.

It adds a decisively aggressive character to an organ the original significance of which, as we have seen, was tactile.

The significance of two or more (in Drepanophorus very numerous) small sacs containing so-called " reserve " stylets resembling in shape that of the central dart is insufficiently known.

For the Heteronemertines arguments have been adduced to prove that here they have the physiological significance of a special respiratory apparatus for the central nervous tissue, which in all these forms is strongly charged with haemoglobin.

As to the organ of touch, the great sensitiveness of the body has already been noticed, as well as the probable primary significance of the proboscis.

It shows a clear discernment of the dangers of the ascetic life, and a deep insight into the significance of the Augustinian doctrine of grace.

The significance of this observation was overlooked; and equally unheeded was a not less important discovery by Scheele in 1783.

But " alchemy " was something more than a particularly vain and deluded manifestation of the thirst for gold, as it is sometimes represented; in its wider and truer significance it stands for the chemistry of the middle ages.

The significance of this act can only be realized when one recalls the tendencies toward the formation of national churches, which had been so powerful under the Merovingians.

Their full significance is treated in the section of this article dealing with organic chemistry, and in the articles Isomerism and STEREO-Isomerism.

It is to be noted that although the correlation of melting-point with constitution has not been developed to such an extent as the chemical significance of other physical properties, the melting-point is the most valuable test of the purity of a substance, a circumstance due in considerable measure to the fact that impurities always tend to lower the melting-point.

The first cause of variation may be at present ignored; its significance will become apparent when we consider dispersion (vide infra).

It is thus seen that the ordinary plane representation of the structure of compounds possesses a higher significance than could have been suggested prior to crystallographical researches.

By its means the church doctrines are made intelligible to the many, and from it the church dogmas receive their true significance.

Some resemblances of expression in Clement of Rome and in Second Clement may have significance.

In both cases the dependence is clearly on the part of Peter; for ideas and phrases that in Ephesians and Romans have their firm place in closely wrought sequences, are found in 1 Peter with less profound significance and transformed into smooth and pointed maxims and apophthegmatic sentences.

Before speaking of the more fundamental grounds urged for the rejection of Ephesians, we may look at various points of detail which are of less significance.

Now for the moralists chiliasm had a special significance as the one distinguishing feature of the gospel, and the only thing that gave a specifically Christian character to their system.

Mr Lecky points out the significance of that event.

Such marks had often a religious significance, and denoted that the bearer was a follower of a particular deity.

The significance of the former is somewhat elastic, and is in large measure determined by the context.

By using the term instinctive in both its strict and its wider significance, Wasmann includes under it the whole range of animal behaviour.