"significancy" meaning in All languages combined

See significancy on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: significancies [plural]
Etymology: From Latin significantia + -ancy. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|significantia}} Latin significantia, {{suffix|en||ancy}} + -ancy Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} significancy (countable and uncountable, plural significancies)
  1. (dated) Significance. Tags: countable, dated, uncountable

Inflected forms

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