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moot
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moot as in:  moot question

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  • Mrs. Dawes's opposition to the engagement was rendered moot by the subsequent elopement of Simon and Serena.†  (source)
  • The Thain was the master of the Shire-moot, and captain of the Shire-muster and the Hobbitry-in-arms, but as muster and moot were only held in times of emergency, which no longer occurred, the Thainship had ceased to be more than a nominal dignity.†  (source)
  • It was a moot point, regardless: Kasischke and Groom were in such bad shape that going anywhere was out of the question for the time being.†  (source)
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  • Well, that's a moot point.†  (source)
  • When the creation of man was first mooted and when, even at that stage, the Enemy freely confessed that he foresaw a certain episode about a cross, Our Father very naturally sought an interview and asked for an explanation.†  (source)
  • Lieutenant Awn raised one gloved hand, gesturing toward the mootness of Lieutenant Issaaia's point.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • And it's a moot point now.†  (source)
  • Rieux knew that desperate solutions had been mooted, such as throwing the corpses into the sea, and a picture had risen before him of hideous jetsam lolling in the shallows under the cliffs.†  (source)
  • His purpose in all this was to make anything Paquette could go after in his cross moot.†  (source)
  • He guessed that something bearing on himself had been either discussed or mooted.†  (source)
  • You'd be dead, so the forgiveness would be a moot point.†  (source)
  • Cowboy Golf In the whirl of the succeeding days it was a mooted question whether Madeline's guests or her cowboys or herself got the keenest enjoyment out of the flying time.†  (source)
  • I couldn't argue, with the eyes or the motivation, and it was a moot point anyway.†  (source)
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