[UN-1 12.] Uselessness.
1694. R. Burthogge, Reason, ix. 268. His notion of a Person, the unusefulness of it to the salving of the Holy Trinity shewed.
c. 1850. Jas. Skinner, in Life (1883), 120. The notion of —’s usefulness to the Church and of —’s so-called unusefulness is a purely human … notion.
1886. N. Amer. Rev., Sept., 304. Frivolous unusefulness, or passion for diversion and excitement.
