Unseasonableness

Definitions

The quality of being unseasonable; untimeliness.

uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] for notwithstanding his purse to buy⟳ provisions of the Country, and his Ships that wherever he went waited continually upon him, his Army through the unseasonableness of the weather, and want⟳ of Quarters, was so much harassed and wasted, many of his men falling sick and dying daily, that if he did not hasten to his Winter-quarters, he would in probability have⟳ perished without a blow⟳ […]”

“A debauched person who lived in the parish came one night very late and demanded the keys of the church of the vicar, that he might ring⟳ a peal, which the vicar refused to let⟳ him have⟳, alleging the unseasonableness of the time, and that he should, by granting his desires, give⟳ a disturbance to Sir George Wroughton and his family, whose house adjoined the churchyard.”

“I could not give⟳ any connected detail yesterday; but the suddenness, and, in one light⟳, the unseasonableness with which the affair burst⟳ out, needs explanation […]”

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