Both Uses
irrelevant
in
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
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- In the midst of blatant injustices inflicted upon the Negro, I have watched white churchmen stand on the sideline and mouth pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities.†
irrelevancies = things that are not relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)
- If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.†
*irrelevant = not relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)
Definitions:
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(1)
(irrelevant) not relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)