Crossword-Solution: PERTINENCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pertinence | n. | Alt. of Pertinency |
We have 21 clues for the answer “PERTINENCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| What a non sequitur lacks | 1 answer |
| Relevance | 4 answers |
| The very thing? | 9 answers |
| good example | 14 answers |
| good fit | 22 answers |
| marriageability | 50 answers |
| attainments | 52 answers |
| acquirements | 53 answers |
| nubility | 56 answers |
| acceptability | 56 answers |
| sufficiency | 57 answers |
| eligibility | 58 answers |
| seemliness | 58 answers |
| admissibility | 58 answers |
| endowments | 59 answers |
| propriety | 60 answers |
| Deftness | 68 answers |
| Talent | 71 answers |
| Competence | 72 answers |
| competency | 73 answers |
| aptness | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PERTINENCE (5)
Smith; and continued after the manner of certain matrons, to whose tongues the harmony of a subject with a casual mood is a greater recommendation than its pertinence to the occasion, “John would spend pounds a year upon the jimcrack old thing, if he might, in having it claned, when at the same time you may doctor it yourself as well.
Again and again as the days passed he had had a sense of the pertinence of communicating quickly with Woollett—communicating with a quickness with which telegraphy alone would rhyme; the fruit really of a fine fancy in him for keeping things straight, for the happy forestalment of error.
His preaching was with such pertinence that the one half of His hearers went home saying, Never man spake like this man, while the other half gnashed at Him with their teeth.
Where is the pertinence of that, if you do not wish to go? But they not only say it, they repeat it, they dwell upon it as if it were a cardinal virtue.
What a range of meanings and what perpetual pertinence has the story of Prometheus! Beside its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Europe, (the mythology thinly veiling authentic facts, the invention of the mechanic arts and the migration of colonies,) it gives the history of religion, with some closeness to the faith of later ages.
Quotes with PERTINENCE (2)
There was something about words and music together that allowed people to get nearest to honest truth about what was most difficult to say. Paradoxically, only through the essential instantaneity of music could you approach its eternal pertinence.
We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1979).