- a variation of pertinence.
pertinency
Example Sentences
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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
Her intelligence and animation, the originality of her ideas, and the point and pertinency of her mode of expressing them, made her, independently of her personal charms, an exceedingly entertaining and agreeable companion.
From Cleopatra by Abbott, Jacob
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
