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nugatory

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nugatory

Having little meaning. A nugatory statement or command is one that provides little value and might just as well be omitted. See deprecate.



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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.
 
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