Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Unseasonable time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An unseasonable time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete, often used in plural The wrong time, an unsuitable time.
- adjective obsolete
Untimely .
Etymologies
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Old English untīma noun, untīme adj. (corresponding to un- + time). Cognate with Old Norse útími (dialectal Norwegian otime).
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Examples
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The span between the two stellar points was considered untime -- a sacred experience outside our usual observation of time and space.
Kelley Harrell: Samhain -- Nature's Holy Day for Managing Seasonal Affective Disorder Kelley Harrell 2011
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The UN special adviser said he believes by 2025, the world would see an extreme poverty in Africa and by the year 2015 the continent could still achieve the MDG ` s untime.
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[(Or snows untime) 4.2 (ly) 30.2 (white) 4.2 (n\222d o\222e) 4.2 (r) 3.2 (the) 4.2 (fie) 4.2 (l) -1.8 (ds.)]
Drelincourt and Rodalvi; or, Memoirs of Two Nobel Families Byron 1807
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