All 5 Uses of
irrelevant
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- One either did the thing or one didn't, and what one "would" have done belonged to the sphere of the irrelevant, like the idea of a future life or of the origin of things.†
Chpt 31
- It was under the pressure of this control that she became, after a little, irrelevant.†
Chpt 32 *
- I can't judge by your husband," he went on irrelevantly, almost incoherently; "I don't understand him; he tells me you adore each other.†
Chpt 48
- "There's Mr. Bantling," said Isabel, gently, irrelevantly, scarcely caring much now whether she should find her maid or not.†
Chpt 53
- 40, that would get me back in time for dinner," Mrs. Touchett's companion rather irrelevantly explained.†
Chpt 55
Definition:
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(irrelevant) not relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)