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
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)
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
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
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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