All 4 Uses of
irrelevant
in
Middlemarch
- That he should be regarded as a suitor to herself would have seemed to her a ridiculous irrelevance.†
Chpt 1 *
- "However," he went on, accenting the word, as if to dismiss all irrelevance, "what I came here to talk about was a little affair of my young scapegrace, Fred's."†
Chpt 2
- It was only the common trick of desire—which avails itself of any irrelevant scepticism, finding larger room for itself in all uncertainty about effects, in every obscurity that looks like the absence of law.†
Chpt 7
- Nothing could have seemed more irrelevant to Dorothea than insistence on her youth and sex when she was moved to show her human fellowship.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(irrelevant) not relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)