irrelative
Americanadjective
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unrelated
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a rare word for irrelevant
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Origin of irrelative
Example Sentences
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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
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)
On the way up to her room, Miss Graham stood for some moments smiling at an irrelative picture of Westminster Abbey, hanging in the parlor.
From Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University by Field, Charles K. (Charles Kellogg)
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
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