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ˈtriflingness [f. as prec. + -ness.] The quality of being trifling; triviality, pettiness.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 71 The triflingnes of this discourse, is much too much enlarged. 1752Carte Hist. Eng. III. 507 Ross and his colleagues shewed the triflingness of this excuse. 1821J. Smith's Sel. Disc. Pref. 10 A profitable companion; nothing of vanity and triflingness in him. 191219th Cent. No. 1023 The triflingness of free negro agricultural labour. |