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seasonableness|ˈsiːz(ə)nəb(ə)lnɪs| [f. prec. + -ness.] The quality of being seasonable; aptitude to time or circumstance; fitness of occurrence.
1546Langley tr. Pol. Verg. de Invent. i. iii. 5 The fruictfull rankeness of the soyle and seasonableness of the Aire. 1623Markham Country Contentm. i. xi. (1631) 76 The seasonablenesse, or vnseasonablenesse of the weather. 1740Warburton Vind. Pope's Ess. Man vi. 108 The Seasonableness of this Reproof will appear evident enough to those who know, that [etc.]. 1831Mackintosh Hist. Eng. II. 83 Frion, a discarded secretary of Henry, who, from the seasonableness of his defection, may be suspected at all times to have been more a spy on Perkin than a traitor to Henry. 1878Seeley Stein II. 535 The previous agitation lost at once its suitableness and seasonableness at the same time that all its objects were fully attained. |