irrelative

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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

If they were candid men they would separate Christianity from all foreign and irrelative circumstances, and test its evidences seriously, as the magnitude of the question deserves.

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 10. October, 1880 by Walker, Aaron

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

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

From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni