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Webster 1913 Edition
Importance
1.
The quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance.
Thy own
Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.
importance
know,Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.
Pope.
2.
Subject; matter.
[Obs.]
Upon
importance
of so slight and trivial a nature. Shakespeare
3.
Import; meaning; significance.
[Obs.]
The wisest beholder could not say if the
importance
were joy or sorrow. Shakespeare
4.
Importunity; solicitation.
[Obs.]
At our
importance
hither is he come. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Importance
IMPORT'ANCE
, n.1.
Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.2.
Weight or consequence in the scale of being. Thy own importance know.
Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.
3.
Weight or consequence in self-estimation. He believes himself a man of importance.
4.
Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]