irrelative
adjective
not relative; without relation (usually followed byto ).
irrelatively
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a word derived from
irrelative.
Example Sentences
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The critic's trouble over this seems to come from his taking the word 'true' irrelatively, whereas the pragmatist always means 'true for him who experiences the workings.'
From Meaning of Truth by William James
Every relation of course implies more objects, and more terms, than one; for any one thing, considered merely in itself, is taken independently, abstractly, irrelatively, as if it had no relation or dependence.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
It is in itself, and irrelatively at once inward life and truth, and outward fact and luminary.
From Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
