† intempestivityn.
Obsolete.
Unseasonableness, untimeliness.
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importunityc1451
unripenessa1500
inopportunity?a1513
unseasonableness1548
immaturity?c1550
untimeliness1580
intempestivity1654
inopportuneness1831
inopportunism1886
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. ix. 127 They were either guilty of Intempestivity and unseasonablenesse, or else of want of Worth and Glory.
a1656 J. Hales Serm. at Eton (1660) ii. 16 A vice which they call ἀκαιελα [properly ἀκαιρία], Intempestivity, an indiscretion by which unwise and unexperienced men see not what befits times, persons, occasions.
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