irrelative

Example Sentences

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I am interested for example in learning that such a “personality” trait as fear of the dark exists irrelative to patterns of child-rearing in the Mato Grosso or in Denver, Colorado.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 25, 2019

If A did not so exclude B, something of B would be found in A, and we could no longer speak of the two elements as irrelative.

From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni

On the way up to her room, Miss Graham stood for some moments smiling at an irrelative picture of Westminster Abbey, hanging in the parlor.

From Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University by Field, Charles K. (Charles Kellogg)

But the concept itself of the multiplicity of irrelative elements is an absurd one.

From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni

But besides "derivation" or "filiation" another principle influencing organisation became recognisable, to which I gave the name of "irrelative repetition," or "vegetative repetition."

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir