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Definition of Pertinence
1. Noun. Relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand.
Generic synonyms: Relevance, Relevancy
Specialized synonyms: Germaneness
Derivative terms: Applicable, Pertain, Pertinent, Pertinent, Pertain, Pertinent, Pertinent
Antonyms: Inapplicability
Definition of Pertinence
1. n. The quality or state of being pertinent; justness of relation to the subject or matter in hand; fitness; appositeness; relevancy; suitableness.
Definition of Pertinence
1. Noun. The quality of being pertinent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pertinence
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pertinence
Literary usage of Pertinence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"Certainly you cannot produce a particle of contemporaneous testimony in opposition
to this, to be compared a moment with it for pertinence and for strength. ..."
2. A Treatise on the Practice of the Court of Chancery: With an Appendix of by John Sidney Smith (1842)
"Commissioners are to judge what is evidence, but not of pertinence of interrogatories,
370. Expenses of executing commission by whom borne, 370. ..."
3. Memoirs of the Life of William Shakespeare: With an Essay Toward the by Richard Grant White (1866)
"... but the pleasing surprise of a certain lack of pertinence, which yet seems
pertinent, forms no small ingredient in our enjoyment of wit. ..."
4. The New Composition-rhetoric by Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney (1911)
"Assignments on the Test for pertinence. A. In the following, point out every
instance in which the writer (Macaulay) charges that the arguments of his ..."
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