pertinence

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  1. The character of being pertinent or to the point; strict relevancy or suitableness; appositeness. Secondly, a due ordering of our words that are to proceed from and to express our thoughts: which is done by pertinence and brevity of expression. South, Works, II. iii.
  2. Relevant or apposite utterance. [Rare.] This balance between the orator and the audience is expressed in what is called the pertinence of the speaker. Emerson, Eloquence.
  3. Synonyms Relevancy, appropriateness, applicability propriety.

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  • When Rosaline says that she will torture Biron before she goes, and turn him into her vassal, the Princess adds None are so surely caught when they are catch'd   As wit turned fool Rosaline replies The blood of youth burns not with such excess   As gravity's revolt to wantonness This remark has no pertinence or meaning in Rosaline's mouth. —  The Man Shakespeare
  • If anything, the incongruity between the quivering conditions of the American economy and a sudden, unprecedented influx of hope, imbues DMZ with an even greater sense of pertinence - particularly in regards to the rise of power of Parco Delgado, as well as the inconsistencies that continue to wage war on Matty Roth's conflicted psyche. —  Brian Wood
  • It amazes me that we are finding new ways to value information for it's pertinence, quality, and timeliness on the internet but our vast riches of older written information must suffer in it's availability due to old thinking. —  The Industry Standard - Comments
  • Master Data Analyst the master data analyst ensures the overall coherence, pertinence, access, use and health of the master data and information contained in isis for the entirety .... —  Top Stories - Google News
  • The question increasingly insinuates itself even into discourses with a long history of denying its pertinence: has capitalism, qua system, outlived its usefulness? —  MRZine.org
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  1. from French pertinence = Provencal pertenensa = Spanish pertinencia, pertenencia, obsolete, = Portuguese pertinencia, pertença, = Italian pertinenza, pertinenzia, from Middle Latin pertinentia, pertinence, right of possession or property, appurtenance, from Latin pertinen(t-)s, belonging, pertinent: see pertinent.
 

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