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

By the bye, this is a mistake that brings me, Christopher Crowfield, many letters that do not belong to me, and which might with equal pertinency be addressed, "To the Man in the Moon."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 by Various

The pertinency of the phrase, in spite of sorrow, is not intelligible.

From Minor Poems by Milton by Milton, John