Obs. rare. Also 4 latlynes. [f. next + -NESS.] a. Tardiness. b. Recency.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter xxxix. 24. Þat hulynes [MS. S. latlynes] þat he will not bifell.
1605. Raleigh, Introd. Hist. Eng. (1693), 2. A Work difficult, as well for the Antiquity, as the Lateliness of things done.
1610. Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, XV. xx. 557. The latelinesse of maturity, whereby they were not enabled to generation vntill they were aboue one hundred yeares old.
