pertinency

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It would result in revealing “the identities of all of Plaintiff’s clients, contractors and vendors, most of whom have zero relevance or pertinency to HSPCI’s ‘Russia investigation.’”

From Washington Times • Oct. 22, 2017

The criteria for talk should be appropriateness and pertinency.

From Time Magazine Archive

The song's lack of variety was balanced by its peculiar pertinency; the President had left Rapid City the night before, suffering from indigestion but had now recovered.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet each one has some pertinency to the possible discovery of the great secret.

From An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Leffingwell, Albert

The views expressed which have the closest pertinency to the will are those which lay especial stress upon the soul as capable of wants, and as thus impelled to action.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various