irrelative
Americanadjective
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unrelated
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a rare word for irrelevant
Other Word Forms
- irrelatively adverb
- irrelativeness noun
Etymology
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
The absolute, irrelative particle primarily created by the Volition of God, must have been in a condition of positive normality, or rightfulness—for wrongfulness implies relation.
From Eureka: A Prose Poem by Poe, Edgar A.
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)
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
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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