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Tempestivity

TEMPESTIV'ITY

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Noun.
[L. tempestivus.] Seasonableness. [Not in use.]

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tempestivity

tempestivity

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Noun

tempestivity (countable and uncountable, plural tempestivities)

  1. (uncountable) timeliness
    • 1714, John Fox, Time and the end of time:
      This is called the season or tempestivity of time, when time, tide, and wind meet and clasp together.
  2. (countable) A time period of a particular character.
    • 1569, Thomas Newton, The Worthye Booke of Old Age, translated from Cicero:
      The race and course of age is certain; and there is but one way of nature and the same simple; and to every part of a man's life and age are given his convenient times and proper tempestivities.

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