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Pertinency   Listen
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Pertinency, Pertinence  n.  The quality or state of being pertinent; justness of relation to the subject or matter in hand; fitness; appositeness; relevancy; suitableness. "The fitness and pertinency of the apostle's discourse."





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"Pertinency" Quotes from Famous Books



... before he sends forth his work, and one which must occur to every thoughtful reader, is the inquiry, Cui bono?—what justification has one for treating the subject at all, and why in the particular way which he has chosen? To the pertinency of this question to the present treatise the author has been deeply sensible, and therefore cannot forbear a few prefatory words of explanation ...
— The Basis of Early Christian Theism • Lawrence Thomas Cole


Words linked to "Pertinency" :   applicability, relevancy, pertinent, germaneness, pertain, pertinence, relevance, inapplicability


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