Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being irrelative; want of relation or connection.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being irrelative; lack of connection or relation.
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- noun The quality or state of being
irrelative ; lack ofconnection orrelation .
Etymologies
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ir- + relation
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Examples
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But the difficulties of arranging the themes in a graduated kinship of moods would have been so great that irrelation was almost unavoidable with efforts so diverse.
Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses Thomas Hardy 1884
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Sterne’s incontinuity of narration, the purposeful irrelation of parts, the use of anecdote and episode, which to the stumbling reader reduce his books to collections of disconnected essays and instances, gave to
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