nu-ga-to-ry
adj. :: Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant.
adj. :: Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual.
"According to these highly-respectable witnesses, the minister, conscious that he was dying -- conscious, also, that the reverence of the multitude placed him already among saints and angels -- had desired, by yielding up his breath in the arms of that fallen woman, to express to the world how utterly nugatory is the choicest of man's own righteousness. -- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
adj. :: Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant.
adj. :: Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual.
"According to these highly-respectable witnesses, the minister, conscious that he was dying -- conscious, also, that the reverence of the multitude placed him already among saints and angels -- had desired, by yielding up his breath in the arms of that fallen woman, to express to the world how utterly nugatory is the choicest of man's own righteousness. -- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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