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unˈseasonably, adv.
[un-1 11.]
In an unseasonable manner; at an unfitting time; out of season.
1588Lambarde Eiren. iv. xix. 603 It wil fall out unseasonablie. 1589Warner Alb. Eng. Prose Add. 164 Whilest he vnseasonably amongst blowes, deliuered vnregarded perswasions of Peace. 1610Healey Theophrastus (1616) 12 A Pratler or Babler..vnseasonably setting vpon any stranger. 1687Wood Life (O.H.S.) III. 233 That night there should have been an illumination in the quadrangle, but by the folly of the proctor it was unseasonably done the night before. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. (Globe) 332, I unhappily and unseasonably disturb'd him. 1780Mirror No. 72, The thoughts of futurity..may surely sometimes, not unseasonably, press upon our imagination. 1819Shelley Cenci iv. iv. 2 Lady, my duty to his Holiness Be my excuse that thus unseasonably I break upon your rest. 1868Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 21 Unseasonably cool and..wet weather set in, followed by early frosts. |