Adjective : pertinent details.    From Dictionary.com. 

What, then, was the pertinency of going on to argue the effect of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference

We cannot but commend highly the self-restraint which marks these brief and pithy prefaces, and the pertinency of every sentence to the matter in hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859] Reference

With a writer of my prosaic literalness and pertinency of point of view, this all shoves toward grossness — positively even towards the far more damnable closeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vailima Letters] Reference

The observance of this plain rule would economise space, save the time which might otherwise be occupied in useless research, and tend to produce more pertinency of reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850] Reference

By the bye, this is a mistake that brings me, Christopher Crowfield, many letters that do not belong to me, and which might with equal pertinency be addressed, "To the Man in the Moon.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference

To the pertinency of this question to the present treatise the author has been deeply sensible, and therefore cannot forbear a few prefatory words of explanation of his object and method.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Basis of Early Christian Theism] Reference

In this case the members of the House by special rule limited themselves to half an hour in the delivery of their speeches, which were consequently marked by great pertinency and condensation.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference

The world will always be grateful to the people of Vietnam for having shown it how the size of a country is immaterial, how the number of the foe matters not, how the power of an enemy is of no pertinency.    From Wordnik.com.  [13TH ANNIVERSARY OF ATTACK ON MONCADA BARRACKS] Reference

Such an analysis supplies, it is said, an excellent discipline to the mind, whilst an occasional reference to the form of the syllogism, as a type or model of reasoning, insures a steadiness and pertinency of argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

And (question of some pertinency!) where was Florian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain] Reference

Hodder exclaimed, struck by the pertinency of the word.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inside of the Cup — Complete] Reference

The pertinency of such and other questions cannot be doubted.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy] Reference

Court of St. James, it was called, with an obvious but happy pertinency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow] Reference

He has glanced through many volumes for similes and quotations of pertinency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Courts and Criminals] Reference

Yet each one has some pertinency to the possible discovery of the great secret.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals] Reference

And yet, as everybody was attacked and nobody in particular, its pertinency was not recognized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jean-Christophe, Volume I] Reference

That he be taught to be curious in making choice of his reasons, loving pertinency, and by consequence brevitie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian] Reference

The courtiers address him; his answers surprise by their pertinency and depth: at length he is brought to the King.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference

"Let us hope that we shall all on us be brought to a better state of mind," concluded Grandma Keeler, with solemn pertinency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cape Cod Folks] Reference

By the range of his humour, the pertinency of his observation, and the vigour of his expression he awoke immediate attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain]

With what assurance he speaks of the truth and pertinency of what he was about to say: Who can withhold himself from speaking?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference

I do not see in this question any argumentative force, that might not be applied with equal pertinency to the case of any criminal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Punishment of Treason] Reference

The summer school recognized the pertinency of this popular disposition, and grounded the teachers in the best methods of serving it.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919] Reference

The truth and pertinency of these observations will be made clear by the following summary of the classical arguments for God's existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

In the view we have taken of this question the argument drawn by the applicant from the Constitution of the United States has no pertinency.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II] Reference

Its brilliancy charms, its poignancy convicts while it chastises, and its pertinency always adorns the sentiment or observation it would illustrate.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812] Reference

He added to the illustrations already given of the inefficacy of the proposed amendment to reach the desired end, one of special force and pertinency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference

A clear perspicuity of mind, methodical accuracy and pertinency of argument, a pleasing, impressive and natural eloquence, distinguished his legal efforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians] Reference

Page 254 and immaterial matters he could so dove-tail and attach to other matters, that they left an impression of a great deal of plausibility and pertinency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,] Reference

In order to give more pertinency to that question, I will read an extract from Trumbull’s speech in the Senate, on the Toombs bill, made on the 2nd of July, 1856.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fourth Joint Debate at Charleston. Extract from Mr. Douglas's Speech Made at Jacksonville, and Referred to by Mr. Lincoln in His Opening at Charleston] Reference

To be sure, you may have the advantage of quoting, with a realizing sense of its pertinency, the famous rabbittical grace, "for rabbits hot, for rabbits cold," etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters] Reference

Still less is there of pertinency in Mr. Hume's eulogium on the cautious and penetrating genius of the historian; for it does not appear that the historian believed it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evidence of Christianity] Reference

The word flattened itself against my mind in trying to get in, and disordered me a little, and before I could inquire into its pertinency, she was already throwing the needed light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Science] Reference

We acknowledge the pertinency of the quotation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890] Reference