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 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

The criteria for talk should be appropriateness and pertinency.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its brilliancy charms, its poignancy convicts while it chastises, and its pertinency always adorns the sentiment or observation it would illustrate.

From A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 by Thurston, Katherine Cecil

In the view we have taken of this question the argument drawn by the applicant from the Constitution of the United States has no pertinency.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady