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

"How then, sir, came Sir Wycherly to honour me with a request to visit him?" demanded the other, with an extremely awkward pertinency.

From The Two Admirals by Cooper, James Fenimore

He was scanning his memory for old impressions and also, in his mild surprise over the pertinency of reviving them, wondering whether he had better pass them on.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice