noun

• (dated) Significance.
  "To break in upon this Sanctuary of Vanity and Ignorance, will be, I ſuppoſe, ſome Service to humane Understanding: Though ſo few are apt to think, they deceive, or are deceived in the Uſe of Words; or that the Language of the Sect they are of, has any Faults in it, which ought to be examined or corrected, that I hope I ſhall be pardon’d, if I have in the Third Book dwelt long on this Subject; and endeavoured to make it ſo plain, that neither the inverateneſs^([sic – meaning inveterateness]) of the Miſchief, nor the prevalency of the Faſhion, ſhall be any Excuſe for thoſe, who will not take Care about the meaning of their own Words, and will not ſuffer the Significancy of their Expreſſions to be enquired into."