unˈseasonableness
[f. prec.]
The quality or fact of being unseasonable: a. Of weather.
| 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §14 The vnseasonablenes of the wether. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. 2 b, Yf either the vnseasonablenesse of the weather, or sicknesse cause me to keepe my bed. 1600 Surflet Country Farme v. x. 674 The Oxen..better indure the vnseasonablenes of times, and..draw a deeper draught. 1695 Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) III. 515 The lords justices, considering the unseasonablenesse of the weather, have..prohibited the exportation of corn. 1796 Phil. Trans. LXXXVI. 280 During last January, nothing was more common than to hear expressions of the unseasonableness of the weather. 1853 C. M. Yonge Heir of Redclyffe II. i. 2 Mrs. Ashford put the matter off for the present by the unseasonableness of the weather. 1971 Daily Tel. 3 July 9/1 Summer..is the season when unseasonableness becomes most glaring and least sufferable. |
b. Of time.
| 1548 Udall Erasm. Par. Luke iv. 49 b, He neuer did so muche as laie for his excuse the importunitee or vnseasonablenesse of tyme. 1628 in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. 582 Our next Argument is drawn..from the unseasonableness of the time. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Pol. Touchstone (1674) 273 About one a clock at night, forty Carts..were seen to enter the Royal Palace..: and because of the unseasonableness of the time..inquiry was made [etc.]. 1694 Phil. Trans. XVIII. 45 They were generally taken notice of,..because of the unseasonableness of the time for Grashoppers. a 1748 Watts Disc. Educ. Childr. ix. (1795) 177 The unseasonableness of the midnight hour [for dancing]. |
c. Of actions, etc.
| 1610 Healey Theophrastus (1616) 49 Vnseasonnablenesse is a troublesome..assaulting of those with whom we haue to doe. 1693 Mem. Ct. Teckely iii. 28 The unseasonableness of the ill Policy of the Turks. 1741 Richardson Pamela IV. 387 Forgive, dearest Sir, the Unseasonableness of your very impertinent..Pamela. 1799 H. More Fem. Educ. (ed. 4) I. 14 A sneer, not at the truth of religion,..but at its gravity, its unseasonableness. 1815 Jane Austen Emma l, The suddenness and..the unseasonableness with which the affair burst out. 1884 Manch. Exam. 1 July 3/1 The unseasonableness of the proposed discussion. |