Relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand.
1 He has glanced through many volumes for similes and quotations of pertinency .
2 Yet each one has some pertinency to the possible discovery of the great secret.
3 And yet, as everybody was attacked and nobody in particular, its pertinency was not recognized.
4 Hodder exclaimed, struck by the pertinency of the word.
5 The pertinency of this remark is to be found in the facts to which it was applicable.
6 That he be taught to be curious in making choice of his reasons, loving pertinency , and by consequence brevitie.
7 He added to the illustrations already given of the inefficacy of the proposed amendment to reach the desired end, one of special force and pertinency .
8 "Catalogued!" Hodder exclaimed, struck by the pertinency of the word.
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