irrelevancy
(ɪˈrɛlɪvənsɪ)
[f. as prec.: see -ancy.]
= prec.
| 1592 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1597) §151 Seeing that diverse exceptiones and objectiones risis vpon criminall libelles..be alleged irrelevancie thereof. 1802–12 Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) IV. 576 In the following modes of collection..the plague of irrelevancy is in a manner unknown. 1833 Lamb Elia, Pop. Fallacies ix, The utter and inextricable irrelevancy of the second [member of the question]. 1876 Mozley Univ. Serm. i. (1877) 7 To use the weapons of one of these societies against a sin or error in the other society, is a total irrelevancy and misapplication. |