appositenessn.
The quality of being apposite, aptness.
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1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 429 The appositeness of these four last Prophecies for the setting out the Merchandizing of the Church of Rome.
1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) II. xxvii. 490 The appositeness of this question.
1873 J. G. Holland Arthur Bonnicastle xix. 288 There was a pathetic and poetic appositeness in these words to the facts of his expiring life.
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