appositeness
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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
Of course there will be room enough for contrariety of judgment among my readers, as to the necessity, or appositeness, or value, or good taste, or religious prudence, of the details which I shall introduce.
From Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
Of that there could be no doubt, and he used it with a native grace, a varied inflection and appositeness which made it seem a part of him, and therefore robbed it of objection.
From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Henry M. Blossom
There is neither necessity nor appositeness in placing the two writers in such juxtaposition.
From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by G. Barnett Smith
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
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