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PERTINENTLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pertinently mean?
• PERTINENTLY (adverb)
The adverb PERTINENTLY has 1 sense:
1. in a pertinent way
Familiarity information: PERTINENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a pertinent way
Context example:
what is singular about his use of them is that no other artist, of his time or any other, has painted them so directly, intimately and pertinently
Pertainym:
pertinent (being of striking appropriateness and pertinence)
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