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Definition of Pertinently
1. Adverb. In a pertinent way. "What is singular about his use of them is that no other artist, of his time or any other, has painted them so directly, intimately and pertinently"
Definition of Pertinently
1. Adverb. In a pertinent manner; relevantly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pertinently
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pertinently
Literary usage of Pertinently
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... Buckingham bad obtained a quick conception of speaking Very gracefully and
pertinently. Clarendon. INDOCTRINATION, as [from indoctrinate. ..."
2. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... of leaden majesty, looking back to the original's hopeful beginning, pertinently
exclaimed, in the language of the Angel to Lucifer, "If thou bc'st ho! ..."
3. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: To which is Added an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1826)
"... and had the habit of speaking very gracefully and pertinently. He was of a
most flowing courtesy and affability to all men who made any address to him; ..."
4. A Theological Dictionary, Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms: A by Charles Buck (1823)
"... seems rather more pertinently applied ii> a rac'i- cal depravity of nature
... pertinently ..."
5. The Theory of Toleration Under the Later Stuarts by Alexander Adam Seaton (1911)
"If your religion," said Archbishop Tillotson pertinently, "1 too good to be
examined, I doubt it is too bad to ..."
6. History of Dakota Territory by George Washington Kingsbury, George Martin Smith (1915)
"The democratic sentiment in Congress, backed by the party judgment of its members,
was quite pertinently expressed by Judge Flower, a democratic ..."
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