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adjectiveunmomentous (comparative more unmomentous, superlative most unmomentous)
comparative more unmomentous · superlative most unmomentous
- Not momentous.
[…] and though the Parsee's mystic watch was without intermission as his own; yet these two never seemed to speak—one man to the other—unless at long intervals some passing unmomentous matter made it necessary.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
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