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单词 pertinency
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pertinencyn.1

Brit. /ˈpəːtᵻnənsi/, U.S. /ˈpərtn̩ənsi/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pertinent adj., -ency suffix.
Etymology: < pertinent adj.: see -ency suffix. In sense 1 after Middle French, French pertinence (see pertinence n.2, and compare quot. 1603 at sense 1). Compare Italian pertinenza (a1348 in this sense). Compare slightly later pertinence n.2It is unclear whether the following represents an earlier example of this word or of pertinency n.2; it is also unclear which sense is intended:1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Pertinency, an appurtenance.
1. The quality of being pertinent; = pertinence n.2
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [noun]
pertinency1603
pertinence1610
touch1612
applicability1644
applicableness1647
relevancy1678
pertinentness1727
application1731
relevance1787
applicancy1808
extendibility1820
generality1830
germaneness1872
pointfulness1897
aboutness1906
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxv. 73 Making choice of his reasons, loving pertinency, and by consequence brevitie.
a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) vii. ii. 293 Because of their pertinency and usefulness in the Matter now in hand.
1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. vi. 320 The pertinency of it to our present concern.
1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) I. ii. ii. 374 Still less is there of pertinency in Mr. Hume's eulogium.
1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xxi. vii. 607 Innumerable things, of no pertinency to us, are wearisomely told.
1968 N.Y. Times 23 Jan. 79/2 A deft and good-natured satirical edge to give the show a contemporary pertinency.
1999 Hist. Teacher 32 171 Teachers also sometimes have doubts about the pertinency of AP for some students.
2. As a count noun: an instance of this; a pertinent fact, detail, etc.Apparently rare in 17th and 18th centuries.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [noun] > an instance of
application?1495
pertinency1654
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 208 On occasion to draw out Pertinencies to some emergent.
1665 G. Wither Medit. upon Lords Prayer Preamble Made forth explicitely in every Essential and Circumstantial pertinency thereof.
1941 Science 3 Jan. 5/1 This admission of hazard in the venture, standing as a boundary post between observed facts and possible pertinencies.
1991 M. A. Mills Rhetorics & Politics in Afghan Trad. Storytelling x. 251 Through such lists the reader is invited to consider a range of possible pertinencies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pertinencyn.2

Brit. /ˈpəːtᵻnənsi/, U.S. /ˈpərtn̩ənsi/
Forms: 1600s (1800s historical) pertinency, 1900s– pertinancy.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pertinentia.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin pertinentia (see pertinence n.1); compare -y suffix3. Compare earlier pertinence n.1 (and see cognates at that entry). Compare also pertinency n.1For a potential earlier example of this word see etymological note at pertinency n.1
rare. Now historical.
= appurtenance n. 1. Cf. pertinence n.1 Usually in plural.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > an adjunct to property
pertinence1379
pertinent1396
tachment?a1400
connex1540
annexation1611
pertinency1651
pertainment1674
appendage1694
1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 105 Nor can a prescription be of those pertinencies whose principles have not a perpetuall and durable continuance.
1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 127 The thanage of Kintore which was made over in 1375 ‘saving the pertinencies [L. pertinenciis] and our kanes’ by Robert II to John de Dunbar, Earl of Moray.
1979 D. Church & E. S. Gowers Across Low Meadow i. 9 In 1268 he was cross examined... The evidence of the witness is recorded as follows:..‘In the Manor of Harding with all its pertinancies..there are of custom four plough teams.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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