"relevancy" meaning in English

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        "Sufficiency (of a statement, claim etc.) to carry weight in law; legal pertinence."
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        "(law, Scotland) Sufficiency (of a statement, claim etc.) to carry weight in law; legal pertinence."
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          "text": "It is the malpractice of the courts to confine evidence and discussion to the bounds of apparent relevancy.",
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        "The degree to which a thing is relevant; relevance, applicability."
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        "(uncountable) The degree to which a thing is relevant; relevance, applicability."
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          "ref": "1895, Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences",
          "text": "To believe that such talk really ever came out of people's mouths would be to believe that there was a time when time was of no value to a person who thought he had something to say; when it was the custom to spread a two-minute remark out to ten; when a man's mouth was a rolling-mill, and busied itself all day long in turning four-foot pigs of thought into thirty-foot bars of conversational railroad iron by attenuation; when subjects were seldom faithfully stuck to, but the talk wandered all around and arrived nowhere; when conversations consisted mainly of irrelevancies, with here and there a relevancy, a relevancy with an embarrassed look, as not being able to explain how it got there.",
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        "A relevant thing."
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        "(countable) A relevant thing."
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        "The degree to which a thing is relevant; relevance, applicability."
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        "(uncountable) The degree to which a thing is relevant; relevance, applicability."
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