[f. next.] The quality of being untimely.
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Importunité, vntimelinesse.
1656. Jer. Taylor, Lett. to Bp. Rochester, 87. The solemnities … and untimeliness of temporal death.
1670. G. H., Hist. Cardinals, II. II. 169. Had not the untimeliness of his death prevented it.
1846. Trench, Mirac., xxxi. 438. Putting out of sight the untimeliness of those leaves and of that pretence of fruit.
1850. L. Hunt, Autobiog., II. xi. 54. The latter calamity, by a most unfortunate climax of untimeliness, took place a little before his enemy’s reverses.
