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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Prematurity.

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  • noun The quality of being premature.

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  • noun the state of being premature

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Examples

  • All sneering at prematureness aside, President Barack Hussein Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize today pretty much locks up another award for him -- the Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week.

    Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points: Is Opt-Out The Answer? 2009

  • But it was cold, nevertheless, on this March night, particularly for Grace, who with the sanguine prematureness of youth in matters of dress, had considered it spring-time, and hence was not so warmly clad as Mrs. Charmond, who still wore her winter fur.

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • I perceived from the first day all the importance of that event, but also its prematureness.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

  • It is really ridiculous to see the uneasiness and prematureness of most persons as the boat begins to approach the shore.

    Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

  • I had been roaming through the grounds meditating upon her many charms, and of how best I could make my offer so as not to agitate her by its seeming prematureness, when I was very much troubled on coming to the conservatory (meaning to enter) to see you, a powerful rival, in the blissful retirement of this boudoir with the woman I have, perhaps unfortunately, conceived, such passionate love for.

    A Heart-Song of To-day Annie Gregg Savigny

  • And this prematureness comes from its having proceeded without having its proper data, without sufficient material to work with.

    The Second-Order Mind 1920

  • And this prematureness comes from its having proceeded without having its proper data, without sufficient material to work with.

    Introduction Thomas Stearns 1920

  • In fine phrase it was said of him that he lectured upon such themes as Plato and Socrates "with a prematureness of scholarship, a delicacy of discernment, a sweet innocent combination of confidence and diffidence, which were inexpressibly charming."

    Starr King in California Simonds, William D 1917

  • In fine phrase it was said of him that he lectured upon such themes as Plato and Socrates "with a prematureness of scholarship, a delicacy of discernment, a sweet innocent combination of confidence and diffidence, which were inexpressibly charming."

    Starr King in California William Day Simonds 1887

  • Grace, who with the sanguine prematureness of youth in matters of dress, had considered it spring-time, and hence was not so warmly clad as Mrs. Charmond, who still wore her winter fur.

    The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884

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