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
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 Charles K. (Charles Kellogg) Field
Yes, but there was such a waste of time; p. 141all sorts of irrelative toasts obviously introduced merely for the purpose of affording mediocre aldermen and M.P.’s a chance of airing their vocabulary.
From Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
The demonstrated constitution of the vertebrate endoskeleton as a series of essentially similar segments appeared to me to illustrate the law of irrelative repetition.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
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 Aaron Walker
