unseasonablyadv.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈsiːzn̩əbli/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈsiːznəbli/, U.S. /ˌənˈsiz(ə)nəbli/ In an unseasonable manner; at an unfitting time; out of season.
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adverb]
in (earlier on) untimec897
untimelyc1200
out of timea1325
in unseasona1400
importunelyc1425
in an evil (also ill, etc.) hour1490
importunatelya1492
at ungaina1500
untimeously1513
intempestively1548
out of season1548
timeless1586
unseasonably1586
inopportunely1609
unseasonablea1634
unopportunely1651
timelessly1673
unseasonally1941
1586 W. Warner Æneidos in Albions Eng. sig. Piiiv Whilst hee vnseasonably amongste blowes, deliuered vnregarded perswasions of Peace.
1588 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (new ed.) iv. xix. 603 It wil fall out unseasonablie.
a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters 12 in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1616) A Pratler or Babler..vnseasonably setting vpon any stranger.
1687 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 233 That night there should have been an illumination in the quadrangle, but by the folly of the proctor it was unseasonably done the night before.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 23 I unhappily and unseasonably disturb'd him.
1780 Mirror No. 72 The thoughts of futurity..may surely sometimes, not unseasonably, press upon our imagination.
1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci iv. iv. 70 Lady, my duty to his Holiness Be my excuse that thus unseasonably I break upon your rest.
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 21 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Unseasonably cool and..wet weather set in, followed by early frosts.
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