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

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

We are not aware to what feature in our character the epithet funny will apply; but probably our self-esteem will not permit us justly to appreciate the appositeness of this somewhat ambiguous epithet.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

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 Warner, Susan

Dick felt rather proud of this, its fluency and general appositeness.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice