[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being apposite, aptness.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., 429. The appositeness of these four last Prophecies for the setting out the Merchandizing of the Church of Rome.
1816. Kirby & Sp., Entom. (1828), II. xxvii. 490. The appositeness of this question.
1873. Holland, A. Bonnic., xix. 288. There was a pathetic and poetic appositeness in these words to the facts of his expiring life.
