intempestive
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ɪntɛmˈpɛstɪv/
intempestive
- (now rare) untimely, happening at an inappropriate moment
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:, New York, 2001, p.106:
- Luxus funerum [display at funerals], shall be taken away, that intempestive expense moderated, and many others.
- ill-timed, inopportune; see also Thesaurus:untimely
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