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
But this passage, trifling as it may seem to some readers, appeared to me worth preserving, because my recent very careful reperusal of Maupassant, as a whole, made its appositeness constantly recur to me.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
In his speeches, on the contrary, he quoted but little, and only when he seemed to run upon a thought already expressed by some one else with singular force and appositeness.
From Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis by John A. J. Creswell
“Something will have to be done about getting a new teacher for that school,” he said with an appositeness which was only too painfully apparent.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
We are not aware to what feature in our character the epithet funny will apply; but probably our self-esteem will not permit us justly to appreciate the appositeness of this somewhat ambiguous epithet.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
