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timeful, a. Now rare.|ˈtaɪmfʊl|
[f. time n. + -ful.]
1. Seasonable, due; = timely a. 2.
a1300E.E. Psalter cxliv. [cxlv.] 16 Þou giues þar mete in time ful tide. 1614Raleigh Hist. World i. vi. §9 (1634) 83 Interrupting..all offer of timefull returne towards God. 1825Carlyle Schiller ii. 92 The timeful change of Christendom;..The universal Spring that shall make young The countenance o' th' Earth.
†2. Early in season; = timely a. 1. Obs.
1382Wyclif Jas. v. 7 Paciently suffringe, til he receyue tymeful and lateful [1388 adds fruyt; Vulg. temporaneum et serotinum; Tindale the yerly and the latter rayne]. 1388― Jer. v. 24 Oure Lord God, that ȝiueth to vs reyn tymeful, and lateful in his tyme.
†3. Occurring in or consisting of time; temporal, durational. Obs.
a1400Hylton Scala Perf. ii. xxiv. (W. de W. 1494), The nyghte as a tymefull space bytwix dayes two.
Hence ˈtimefully adv., with timely action.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. iii. iii, Warned by friend Talleyrand..he timefully flits over the marches. 1845― Cromwell (1871) I. 105 The Five Members, timefully warned, were gone into the City.
Add: ˈtimefulness n.
a1943R. G. Collingwood Idea of Hist. (1946) v. i. 212 Just as history is not the same thing as change, so it is not the same thing as ‘timefulness’, whether that means evolution or an existence which takes time. 1962H. C. Weston Sight, Light & Work (ed. 2) v. 167 The changeability and the ‘timefulness’ of daylighting have already been mentioned. |