immomentous
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]immomentous (comparative more immomentous, superlative most immomentous)
- Not momentous; unimportant; insignificant.
- 1805, Anna Seward, “Letter XLI, to Miss Ponsonby”, in Letters of Anna Seward:
- And now our newspapers cease to assert the Austrian defeat immomentous, or the co-operation of Prussia certain.
- 1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood:
- the traditional achievements connected with his memory, prove, if any proof were necessary, that he played no immomentous part upon the stage of life in his generation
References
[edit]“immomentous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.