affective meaning, concern, drift, gist, intension, overtone, real meaning, relevance, significance, structural meaning, totality of associations
Definitionn. relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand
Last update: November 2, 2015
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Vanrevel, more than one hundred feet away, seemed particularly conscious of the pertinence of her remark. [Please select]
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The pertinence of the question checked Selden's fugitive impulse before the train had started. [Please select]
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But the formal pertinence of a question is of the greatest significance. [Please select]
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The question presented itself with an odd pertinence that drew his set, beardless lips into a kind of smile. [Please select]
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It turned up unexpectedly at all sorts of times and in all sorts of places, and on each occasion with an increased comprehension on his side of its pertinence. [Please select]
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We have a wholly different ideal, which in order to interest us powerfully painting must illustrate--an ideal of more pertinence and appositeness to our own moods and manner of thought and feeling. [Please select]
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