This was the chief significance of a campaign which at best was only an interlude in the daily life of prayer, civil and domestic cares and regulations which took up Mahomet's life in the breathing space before the great Meccan attack.
He was well aware of the significance of the transaction.
Mahomet felt the significance of their loyalty very deeply.
The most of his credulous and simple-minded hearers did not reflect on the significance of the back-door remark, but Angut did, and grinned a peculiar grin at the little fat boy, whom he chucked a second time under the chin.
Nor is it without significance that India rejected Buddhism--a movement which challenged caste and whose missionary enthusiasm embodied a broader sentiment of humanity than has yet been woven into Indian civilization.
The concept of sin never had the same significance for the Greek, and humanism has always resented the severity of the tradition that comes from Paul through Augustine and Calvin.
It is not a merely ephemeral interest which draws attention at this point to the significance of engines of war, among this class of transferable inventions.
I am far from wishing to say that nationality or race has no significance in art, but I think that we have been in danger of greatly exaggerating its importance.
Bigot felt the full meaning and significance of the words that burned into his soul, and for which he hoped one day to be revenged.
In the first few minutes her mind had been able to take in the significance only to herself of this culminating disaster.
Then the significance to her of Matilda's absence flashed upon her.
Indeed, my child, you spoke truth just now," she said slowly, a fresh significance in her tone.
To have given the strongest expression to this joy constitutes the historical significance of Gustav Frenssen, just as solicitude for its future inspired the muse of Wilhelm von Polenz.
Their intimacy had at one bound reached that point when every word and movement teemed with tender significance and suggestion.
The Count de Roannes came unexpectedly and unobserved upon the climax of the little scene, and read into it more significance than it really had.
The girl was a captivating little witch--the old father winced at the significancein the tone--and she must have her fling!
Arthur was too much pre-occupied to notice the peculiarly feminine significance with which the Donna dwelt upon this latter sentence--a fact that would not otherwise have escaped his keen observation.
Dumphy," said Arthur, still keeping his own seat, and ignoring the significance of Dumphy's manner.
Arthur could not resist italicising the pronoun, nor despising himself for doing it when he saw that the full significance of his emphasis touched the man before him.
As far as I can see, really, it seems that his own suggestion of a defence, as you told it to me, has more significance in it than the absurdity you only saw.
And when Mrs. Sepulvida touched his elbow, and asked if this were not the squatter who held the forged grant, Arthur, without being conscious of any special meanness, could not help replying with unnecessary significance that it was.
Even now its full significancedid not appear to have reached him.
Arthur heard him through with quiet interest, but when Mr. Dumphy spoke of the loss of the envelope, he fixed his eyes on Mr. Dumphy's with a significance that was unmistakable.
He met fact with fact, brought up points in anatomy the significance of which Huxley confessed that he had overlooked, and had more experiments and clinical cases at his tongue's end than Jackson could muster.
We find no difficulty in realizing the historic significance of Marathon and Chalons, of the barons at Runnymede or Luther at Wittenberg; and scarcely a hill or a meadow in the Romans Europe but blooms for us with flowers of romance.
Behind Mr. Parkman's picturesqueness, therefore, there lies a significance far more profound than one at first would suspect.
Why seek for any especial significance in the fact that every spider and every lobster is made up of just twenty segments?
It was an experience of which the full significance required study in many and apparently diverse fields to realize.
They came just at the time when the world was ripe for the doctrine of evolution, when all the wondrous significance of the trend of scientific discovery since Newton's time was beginning to burst upon men's minds.
The depth of its significance is equalled by the vastness of its consequences.
Before the full significance of such facts of embryology and morphology could be felt, it was necessary that the work of classification should be carried far beyond the point at which it had been left by Linnaeus.
In order to show the full significance of these extracts from Dr Newman, and also their bearing on points still to be discussed, I will append the following suggestive passage from Sir H.
This has its significance from the point of view I am indicating, but I do not see that it is satisfactorily accounted for on any other view.
Any hostile argument which would seek to deprive those ceremonies of their significance must be directed to the extrusion of the diluvian symbols.
The reader will find the answer on returning to the text, where he will also learn the significanceof the red and yellow, in the above descriptions.
Then the hypothesis is acquiesced in, it is received as final, its significance evaporates.
Again, was there no significance in the unlooked-for disasters at Forbach and Woerth, occurring coincidently with the final abandonment of Rome by France?
The Latin league has its significance over and above its bearing upon the present argument; and to this I shall presently revert.
Let thesignificance of the following coincidence be considered in connection with the evidence at p.
This being assumed, is it not of some significance that when the Roman pontiffs proceeded to the banks of the Tiber to perform their annual (commemorative) ceremonial, that they should make their expiatory sacrifices to Saturn?
Now, let us consider this special significance of the Amphictyonic Council.
Now this passage seems to me to have a still further significance in the words I have italicised, with reference to the argument I have in hand.
On these grounds I believe that it may be safely admitted, that this kind of marking possessed the same significance in its initial stages as it now does when fully perfected.
Were it possible to arrive at the causes of the formation of these spots, their original or primary significancewould thereby be made clear.
The instances adduced are quite sufficient to prove that longitudinal stripes occur wherever we should expect to find them, and that they really possess the biological significance which I have ascribed to them.
The question as to the biologicalsignificance of marking here presented itself in the first place for solution, and the third section is devoted to this subject.
If it be asked what significance attaches to the duplication of the winter form, it may be answered that the species was already dimorphic at the time when it appeared in only one annual generation.
By this it must not be understood that the ocelli of the Chærocampa larvæ invariably possess only this, and no other significance for the life of the insect.
What other significance can eye-spots possess than that of making the insects conspicuous?
Higher has the human Thought not yet reached: this is Christianity and Christendom; a symbol of quite perennial, infinite character; whose significance will ever demand to be anew enquired into, and anew made manifest.
To estimate its full significance it is necessary in a few words to recapitulate the course of thought which has been followed in the preceding chapters.
The little fact gains much significance in the light of Bunyan's own confession that he was so afraid that the bell would fall upon him and kill him as a punishment from God, that he used to go outside the door to ring it.
Nay, having catalogued yourself a Liberal, you may seldom even find it necessary to inquire what the significanceof Liberalism really is.
It is not without significance that Sharp and Mr. Yeats and Mr. Symons all dreamed on the same night the curious dream of a beautiful woman shooting arrows among the stars.
The legend has, however, a deeper significance than this.
The significance of these varying degrees of servile, semi-servile, and free labor will be seen in the following discussion of the social relations of the superior and inferior races.
The significance of this new and highly perfected form of inducement will appear when we look back for a moment upon the legislation governing immigration.
The significance of Austro-Hungarian immigration is revealed only when we analyze it by races.
It was certainly unfortunate that Sewell, whom everybody looked to for guidance, had been away that day, and the fact might have had significance for any one who doubted him.
It was a bald announcement, but that was not a time for speech, and Leger fully realized the significance of it.
Ingleby understood the significance of the question.
The man had certainly appeared embarrassed, and that had its significance in connection with what Ingleby had said.
Slavin started a little, and then smiled to himself, for there was, at least, no sign in the Recorder's face that he attached any particular significance to the announcement.
He could grasp the significance of it, but that was all, for though the rapid was partly ice-bound now, one white sluice of water still frothed about the tree, and the sound it made seemed to keep his thoughts from crystallizing.
Indeed, a little thrill of triumph ran through her as she realized the significance of what had happened.
Ingleby smiled with an absence of embarrassment which had its significance for one of the party.
In the course of my address I asked them to take notice of a great silent change that was taking place all round them in the position of women, the full significance of which they might not have grasped.
Obviously in both these cases thesignificance of this particular word must not be pressed.
The significance of these names is not obvious, but see p.
It cannot be without significancehere that the two figures are actually in relief on the vase, and the parallelism with the pediment (so far as we know the design) is so close that a copy of it was manifestly the vase-artist’s intention.
There follows a curious development of this to anyone clearly impressed by the uniqueness and the unique significance of individualities.
Empedocles found no significance in life whatever except as an unsteady play of love and hate, of attraction and repulsion, of assimilation and the assertion of difference.
In his account of the state of Brahmanism in India after the times of the two earlier Vedas, Professor Hopkins[172] throws light upon the real significance of the ball in the dragon-symbolism.
This seems to clear away any doubt as to the significance of the ball.
This distinction between the significance of the amulet when worn on the girdle and on the head (in the hair), or as a necklace or bracelet, is very widespread.
The number four has a peculiar mystical significance (vide infra, p.
These well-established facts should prepare us to recognize that the admission of the truth of Houssay's suggestion would not necessarily invalidate the more widely accepted solar significance of the swastika.
It is perhaps not without significance that the root of a marsh plant, the Iris pseudacorus[360] is regarded in Germany as a luck-bringer which can take the place of the mandrake.
On the girdle it usually has the significance of stimulating the individual's fertility: worn elsewhere it was intended to ward off danger to life, i.
As the real significance of the snake's symbolism originated from its identification with the Great Mother in her destructive aspect, it is not surprising that the snake is the most primitive form of the evil dragon.
The interest of the Levantine terms for the mandrake lies in the fact that they have the same significance as the word for pearl, i.
Both in Egypt and China the conceptions of the significance of the shadow are later and altogether subsidiary.
The real significance of 'unclean' in connection with religious ritual is 'holy', something that partakes in a special manner of supernatural influence and therefore involves a certain danger in contact.
It is often asserted that we have to explain the lower by the higher, and we can only understand the significance of religion in its lower forms by bearing in mind the higher manifestations.
The significance of this fact is often obscured by our having etherealised the conception of love, and so losing sight of its physiological basis.
The significance of the intense contemplation of a tortured body--possibly made by one whose sexual nature was undergoing a process of suppression--is unmistakable.
But the advocate of revivalism quite misses the true significance of the fact.
The real significance of its use in religious worship is that it gives a marked expression to feelings that crave an outlet.
Even with many who perceive the mechanism of conversion its realsignificance is often missed.
In truth, the change which came upon the saints from their close experience of revival passion, was regarded by themselves as in some degree miraculous, equal in divine significance to a new creation of the world.
The religious man is marked off from the non-religious man, not by the possession of distinct mental qualities, but solely by holding different ideas concerning the cause and significance of his mental states.
The real significance of the word 'unclean' in religious ritual has been obscured by our modern use of it in a hygienic or ethical sense.
There is much greater significance in so large a number of people finding complete satisfaction in purely secular activities.
The whole significance of adolescence lies in the bursting into activity of feelings hitherto dormant, and the quickening of a desire for communion with a larger social life.
I feel that by dwelling on some trick of speech or some queer habit I should be able to give them a significance peculiar to themselves.
It was evident that colours and forms had a significance for Strickland that was peculiar to himself.
Young as I was, I understood the divinesignificance of a girl's vicarious effusiveness at such a moment, and felt delighted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "significance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
