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Pertinency

noun
1.
Relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand.  Synonyms: applicability, pertinence.





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"Pertinency" Quotes from Famous Books



... this is a mistake that brings me, Christopher Crowfield, many letters that do not belong to me, and which might with equal pertinency be addressed, "To the Man in the Moon." Yet these letters often make my heart ache,—they speak so of people who strive and sorrow and want help; and it is hard to be called on in plaintive tones for help which you know it is perfectly impossible ...
— Household Papers and Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... flattened itself against my mind trying to get in, and disordered me a little, and before I could inquire into its pertinency, she was already throwing the ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


Words linked to "Pertinency" :   pertain, pertinence, pertinent, inapplicability, germaneness, relevancy, relevance, applicability


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