单词 | seasonableness |
释义 | seasonablenessn. The quality of being seasonable; aptitude to time or circumstance; fitness of occurrence. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [noun] > opportuneness or timeliness covenablenessa1382 opportunity1531 seasonableness1546 tidiness1567 timeliness1573 tempestivity1576 ratheness1635 opportuneness1727 timefulness1898 1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke i. iii. 5 The fruictfull rankeness of the soyle and seasonableness of the Aire. 1623 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. (1631) i. xi. 76 The seasonablenesse, or vnseasonablenesse of the weather. 1740 W. Warburton Note Pope's Ess. Man vi. 108 The Seasonableness of this Reproof will appear evident enough to those who know, that [etc.]. 1831 J. Mackintosh Hist. Eng. II. 83 Frion, a discarded secretary of Henry, who, from the seasonableness of his defection, may be suspected at all times to have been more a spy on Perkin than a traitor to Henry. 1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein II. 535 The previous agitation lost at once its suitableness and seasonableness at the same time that all its objects were fully attained. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1546 |
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