Definition of "pertinency" []

• The quality of being pertinent to the matter at hand; relevance. (noun)

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• "With a writer of my prosaic literalness and pertinency of point of view, this all shoves toward grossness — positively even towards the far more damnable closeness."
• "You need be under no apprehension from the memory of the past, in which you may have observed the power of that people and their pertinency in self-defense; though these might reasonably excite fear, if they were still animated by the valor of former times."
• "The world will always be grateful to the people of Vietnam for having shown it how the size of a country is immaterial, how the number of the foe matters not, how the power of an enemy is of no pertinency."