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
Grief grinned to himself at the appositeness of it as "Lead, Kindly Light," floated out over the dark water.
From A Son Of The Sun by Jack London
Through some accidental appositeness to some contemporaneous situation, these may become generally current.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman
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
