a. Obs. [UN-1 7 and 5 b. Cf. UNSIGNIFYING.] Not significant, unmeaning; insignificant. (Freq. c. 1635–c. 1665.)
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 643. Yet will they … participate with them in a kinde of voice, not altogether inarticulate and unsignificant.
1630. R. Johnson’s Kingd. & Commw., 82. The Duke … is but a voice unsignificant; for the Senate carrieth the sword.
1673. R. Allestree, Ladies Calling, I. 123. She … is like … to give but an unsignificant attendance at it.
Hence † Unsignificantly adv. Obs.
1644. Milton, Areop. (Arb.), 74. The Temple of Janus … might now not unsignificantly be set open.
a. 1662. Heylin, Laud (1668), 5. Which words had been impertinently, and unsignificantly used.
