Both Uses of
relevant
in
A Passage to India
- Sometimes, to the exasperation of Major Callendar, he would pass over the one relevant fact in a position, to dwell on the hundred irrelevant.
Chpt 7 *relevant = relating in a meaningful way to the issue in question
- The point she made was never the relevant point, her arguments conclusive but barren, she was reminded that he had expert knowledge and she none, and that experience would not help her because she could not interpret it.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(relevant) relating in a meaningful way to the issue in question