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Pertinence definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PER'TINENCE
PER'TINENCY, n. [L. pertinens,pertineo; per and teneo, to hold.]
Justness of relation to the subject or matter in hand; fitness; appositeness; suitableness.
I have shown the fitness and pertinency of the apostle's discourse to the person he addressed.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand [syn: applicability, pertinence, pertinency] [ant: inapplicability]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1659 the quality or state of being pertinent ; relevance

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pertinence Per"ti*nence, Pertinency Per"ti*nen*cy, n. [Cf. F. pertinence. See Pertinent.] The quality or state of being pertinent; justness of relation to the subject or matter in hand; fitness; appositeness; relevancy; suitableness. The fitness and pertinency of the apostle's discourse. --Bentley.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n.; (also pertinency) Fitness, appropriateness, relevancy, appositeness, suitableness, applicability, propriety, patness.

Moby Thesaurus

affective meaning, applicability, application, appositeness, bearing, coloring, concern, concernment, connection, connotation, consequence, denotation, drift, effect, essence, extension, force, germaneness, gist, grammatical meaning, idea, impact, implication, import, intension, interest, lexical meaning, literal meaning, materiality, meaning, overtone, pith, point, practical consequence, purport, range of meaning, real meaning, reference, referent, regard, relatedness, relation, relevance, respect, scope, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, span of meaning, spirit, structural meaning, substance, sum, sum and substance, symbolic meaning, tenor, totality of associations, transferred meaning, unadorned meaning, undertone, value