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

And then he passes to earnest instructions and exhortations, which derive appositeness from regarding them as a proclamation to his men of the principles on which his camp is to be governed.

From The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms by Maclaren, Alexander

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 Saintsbury, George

Their dramatic and literary value would itself have sufficed to obtain attention for them at any time, though there can be no doubt that their popularity was mainly due to their political appositeness.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

Dick felt rather proud of this, its fluency and general appositeness.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice