Relevancy

Definitions

1. Sufficiency (of a statement, claim etc.) to carry weight in law; legal pertinence.
   Scotland, countable, uncountable
2. The degree to which a thing is relevant; relevance, applicability.
   uncountable
3. A relevant thing.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“It is the malpractice of the courts to confine evidence and discussion to the bounds of apparent relevancy.”

“To believe⟳ that such talk⟳ really ever came out of people's mouths would be to believe⟳ that there was a time when time was of no value to a person who thought he had something to say⟳; when it was the custom to spread⟳ a two-minute remark⟳ out to ten; when a man's mouth was a rolling-mill, and busied itself all day long in turning four-foot pigs of thought into thirty-foot bars of conversational railroad iron⟳ by attenuation; when subjects were seldom faithfully stuck to, but the talk⟳ wandered all around and arrived nowhere; when conversations consisted mainly of irrelevancies, with here and there a relevancy, a relevancy with an embarrassed look⟳, as not being able to explain⟳ how it got there.”

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