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inopportunity|ɪnɒpəˈtjuːnɪtɪ| [ad. late L. inopportūnitās, in Quicherat: cf. mod.F. inopportunité (Dict. Acad. 1835).] The quality or fact of being inopportune; unseasonableness.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xv. 23 He that dois all his best servyiss May spill it all with crakkis and cryis, Be fowll inoportunitie. 1846Worcester cites Q. Rev. 1868A. B. Alcott Tablets 146 The light..hidden under the bushel of misapprehension, or inopportunity, flames forth at fitting moment. 1894Westm. Gaz. 20 June 1/2 Such inopportunity as there may be in the Conference is not the fault of its organisers. |