appositeness
Example Sentences
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I could not at the moment recall Enoch’s appositeness; so I had to ask a simple question, though I felt that by so doing I was lowering myself in the eyes of the lunatic:—
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
In 1835 he published his elaborate treatise on Baptism, which was followed by other Tracts from different authors, if not of equal learning, yet of equal power and appositeness.
From Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
Johnny was not exactly interested; vistas were opened for which he had no eyes and which possessed no appositeness to his own aims.
From On the Stairs by Henry Blake Fuller
And then he passes to earnest instructions and exhortations, which derive appositeness from regarding them as a proclamation to his men of the principles on which his camp is to be governed.
From The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms by Alexander Maclaren
The present hand-book of Döderlein is remarkable for the brevity, distinctness, perspicuity, and appositeness of its definitions.
From Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig Döderlein
