Meaning of nonsequitous | Babel Free

Definitions

Having the form of a non sequitur; not logically following from preceding statements or events.

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“Given their stated hurry⟳ in 4, Franklin's question⟳ seems oddly nonsequitous. Like⟳ his story in Sc. 9, we might see⟳ the stand-alone, bawdy comic routine to which this gives rise⟳ as moving the travellers some way along the route.”

“53 The decision considered here does not, in its analysis, provide⟳ a detailed argument but rather sets out a number⟳ of seemingly nonsequitous 'considerations'.”

“Some was good, some was bad and some was so nonsensically nonsequitous that it confuses me even now to think⟳ about it. And yet, during all that time, I never learned his age, where he came from or where he went when he vanished.”

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