appositeness
Example Sentences
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I could not at the moment recall Enoch’s appositeness; so I had to ask a simple question, though I felt that by so doing I was lowering myself in the eyes of the lunatic:—
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Dick felt rather proud of this, its fluency and general appositeness.
From Old Crow by Alice Brown
Sometimes the answer was in the words of the Bible; but always, whatever it were, it was given, Eleanor felt, with singular appositeness to the interests before him.
From The Old Helmet, Volume I by Susan Warner
The present hand-book of Döderlein is remarkable for the brevity, distinctness, perspicuity, and appositeness of its definitions.
From Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig Döderlein
But this passage, trifling as it may seem to some readers, appeared to me worth preserving, because my recent very careful reperusal of Maupassant, as a whole, made its appositeness constantly recur to me.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
