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lateness|ˈleɪtnɪs|
Also 1 lætnys, 4–5 latnes(se.
[OE. lætnes, f. læt late a.1 + -nes -ness.]
The quality or condition of being late. a. Slowness. (Now dial.) b. The being advanced in some period of time. c. The being behind usual or proper time. d. Recency.
c1050Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) VIII. 308 Eall swa þære sunnan lætnys binnan feower ᵹeara fæce. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xviii. (Egipciane) 19 Þe latnes of þe houre. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 89 Þe souerayn vertu maynteignes alle þinges, ffor it geues latnesse, and it makys swyftnesse. 1587Golding De Mornay viii. (1617) 112 Thus do ye see the latenesse of the Westerne Nations. 1727Swift Let. to Gay 23 Nov., Wks. 1841 II. 610 Your lateness in life..might be improper to begin the world with, but almost the eldest men may hope to see changes in a court. 1750Costard Dissert. Kesitah 29 A farther proof of the lateness of that Composition [sc. the Book of Job]. 1840Thirlwall Greece VII. 311 The lateness of the season. 1874Sayce Compar. Philol. vi. 216 The existence of compounds in a language may be considered a mark of lateness. 1881Fitch Lect. Teaching 74 A systematic record for each pupil of these particulars:..(3) absence; (4) lateness. 1885Bookseller May 454/2 Its palpable lateness of date. 1887S. Cheshire Gloss., Latn'ss, delay, slowness. |