appositeness

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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

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 Döderlein, Ludwig

By his inexhaustible humour, and the point and appositeness of his impromptus, he quite carried his audience away.

From Weird Tales. Vol. I by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)

And then he passes to earnest instructions and exhortations, which derive appositeness from regarding them as a proclamation to his men of the principles on which his camp is to be governed.

From The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms by Maclaren, Alexander

We have often thought, that if the various similes employed in the Scriptures were thoroughly understood, that their appositeness and beauty would be themes of increased admiration.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord