The lower ridges referred to are thickly strewn with shells of molluscs belonging to species still living in the adjacent ocean waters, thus indicating the recency of the emergence of the land.
This narrowness of the continental shelf seems to be due to the recency of the uplifting of the Coast mountains, and the lack of time for the debris from the land and the organic refuse of the sea to shoal the water.
Try them out and see whether the elements of habit, contiguity, recency and intensity do not determine all questions of association.
In any case, the reference to the locomotive established the recency of the name.
When you are all warmed up over an idea, its recency value gives it such an advantage over opposing ideas that they have no chance, for the moment, of making themselves felt in the line of criticism.
The matter laid aside, these false clues lost their recency value with lapse of time, so that when you took the matter up again you were free from their interference and had a good chance to go straight towards the goal.
What particular word shall be recalled depends on the frequency, recency and intensity of past linkage.
It was founded only fifteen years since, and indeed the rudeness of its appearance sufficiently indicates the recency of its origin.
The superior coldness of their climate sufficiently accounts for the former deficiency, and the greater recency of their establishment for the latter.
We may thus represent to the eye the recency of man's appearance, so far as at present known to science.
No fact of science is more certainly established than the recency of man in geological time.
When a number of groups of 4 series each were to be tested on a given day they were taken in the order of their recency of learning.
You fellows have been all stirred up by the scenery, but I'm thinking of the inner man.
