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Pertinence

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





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"Pertinence" Quotes from Famous Books



... to go as far as even the romanticist, though extremely catholic, Gautier. They leave us cold. We have a wholly different ideal, which in order to interest us powerfully painting must illustrate—an ideal of more pertinence and appositeness to our own moods and ...
— French Art - Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture • W. C. Brownell
... (1796), in which Burke showed the usual art of all his compositions in shaking aside the insignificances of a subject. He turned mere personal defence and retaliation into an occasion for a lofty enforcement of constitutional principles, and this, too, with a relevancy and pertinence of consummate skilfulness. There was to be one more great ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 - "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" • Various


Words linked to "Pertinence" :   relevancy, relevance, pertain, inapplicability, germaneness, pertinent


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