Non-sequitur

Quick meaning: Non-sequitur is a verb meaning (ambitransitive, rare) To commit a non sequitur; to make a statement that does not logically follow a previous statement.

Meaning

(ambitransitive, rare) To commit a non sequitur; to make a statement that does not logically follow a previous statement.

Example Sentences

Schoeck had long been complaining of the rapidity of technical developments in the brave new world of postwar Europe (when driving past the new Zurich airport once with Alma Staub, he had non-sequitured in despair: “There's no wonder that all culture is going to the dogs when you can get in here and get out in Chicago the next morning”).¹¹

It is only mildly amusing that nowadays the standard Republican/Tory after-dinner speech is a two-part affair, in which part one celebrates the virtues of unimpeded competition and dynamic structural change, while part two mourns the decline of the family and community ‘values’ that were eroded precisely by the forces commended in part one. Thus at the present time the core of Republican/Tory beliefs is a perfect non-sequitur.

Word Forms

• non-sequiturs
• non-sequituring
• non-sequitured

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include connote, unsay, nol pros, unresemble, nonexist, don't.

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