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

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 Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

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

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

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 Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)