Meaning of Untime | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The absence of time; timelessness.
   countable, uncountable
2. A wrong time; an unsuitable or improper time.
   countable, obsolete, often, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Actually, his apocalypse is a reverse cosmogony: he features himself as a monstrous Leviathan swallowing all the faithful, and the Untime celebrated by "unceasing" clock-chiming seals the reign of death and the return⟳ to pre-cosmogonic chaos. Death, not life, is what the imam has to offer⟳ to the faithful of Desh.”

“The body of Al-Lat has shrivelled on the grass, leaving behind only a dark stain; and now every clock in the capital city of Desh begins to chime, and goes on unceasingly, beyond twelve, beyond twenty-four, beyond one thousand and one, announcing the end⟳ of Time, the hour that is beyond measuring, the hour of the exile's return⟳, of the victory of water over wine, of the commencement of the Untime of the Imam.”

“Later though, after about two weeks in untime, Finn began to get⟳ confused, and my job changed to simply keeping him straight.”

“Nirvana, as we shall see⟳, is a time rather than a place⟳, but it is better still described as an un-time.”

“While everyone else is frozen in untime Katie is unaffected and therefore acts as his sidekick in his efforts to avert disaster, death and devastation—[…]”

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