Now rare. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] = TRIVIALITY 1.
a. 1687. H. More, App. Def. Philos. Cabbala, xi. § 1. As for the pretended Trivialness of the Fifth and Sixth Days work.
1732. Stackhouse, Hist. Bible (1767), IV. VI. v. 212. The vast distance of the place and trivialness of the errand.
1855. Milman, Lat. Chr., XIV. ii. (1864), IX. 77. In the puerility and trivialness of their wonders they even surpass the Western Hagiologies.
