importancy
Importance; significance.
Noun
- Importance; significance.
- […]we conſider The importancy of Cypreſſe to the Turke: […] - c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas...
- That which is important.
- Generall matters he is as liberall to impart, as carefull to conceal importancies. - 1642, Thomas Fuller, “The wise Statesman”, in The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […],...
Origin
From Medieval Latin importantia.