relevance

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

REL'EVANCE, REL'EVANCY, noun [See Relevant.] 1. The state of being relevant, or of affording relief or aid. 2. Pertinence; applicableness. 3. In Scots law, sufficiency to infer the conclusion.
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