irrelative
Americanadjective
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unrelated
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a rare word for irrelevant
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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.
If they were candid men they would separate Christianity from all foreign and irrelative circumstances, and test its evidences seriously, as the magnitude of the question deserves.
From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 10. October, 1880 by Walker, Aaron
But the concept itself of the multiplicity of irrelative elements is an absurd one.
From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni
But besides "derivation" or "filiation" another principle influencing organisation became recognisable, to which I gave the name of "irrelative repetition," or "vegetative repetition."
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
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