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
“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)
Dick felt rather proud of this, its fluency and general appositeness.
From Old Crow by Alice Brown
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
The appositeness of this illustration will be evident when it is applied to the subject under consideration.
From Free Ships: The Restoration of the American Carrying Trade by John Codman
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