All 4 Uses of
relevant
in
1984 by Orwell
- But the really relevant date was seven or eight years earlier.
p. 75..3 *relevant = important to the issue in questioneditor's notes: This is from the scene in the book when a scrap of newspaper missed destruction and fell into Winston's hands year's later. It was the only time he ever had "concrete evidence" that the Party changed recorded history. The "relevant date" was the date in history that was changed.
- They remembered a million useless things, a quarrel with a workmate, a hunt for a lost bicycle pump, the expression on a long-dead sister's face, the swirls of dust on a windy morning seventy years ago: but all the relevant facts were outside the range of their vision.
p. 93..3relevant = meaningful to the issue in question
- The proles had stayed human. They had not become hardened inside. And in thinking this he remembered, without apparent relevance, how a few weeks ago he had seen a severed hand lying on the pavement and had kicked it into the gutter as though it had been a cabbage-stalk.
p. 165..6relevance = meaningful relation to the issue in question
- The scientist of today is either a mixture of psychologist and inquisitor, studying with real ordinary minuteness the meaning of facial expressions, gestures, and tones of voice, and testing the truth-producing effects of drugs, shock therapy, hypnosis, and physical torture; or he is chemist, physicist, or biologist concerned only with such branches of his special subject as are relevant to the taking of life.
p. 194..1relevant = important or meaningful
Definition:
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(relevant) relating in a meaningful way to the issue in question