преждевременный

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Russian

Etymology

пре́жде (préžde) +‎ -е- (-e-) +‎ вре́мен- (vrémen-) +‎ -ный (-nyj)

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Adjective

преждевре́менный (preždevrémennyj) (comparative (по)преждевре́меннее or (по)преждевре́менней)

  1. premature, untimely
    • 1870, Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин, “Органчик”, in История одного города; English translation from I. P. Foote, transl., The History of a Town, Oxford: Willem A. Meeuws, 1980:
      Скоро, однако ж, обыватели убедились, что ликования и надежды их были, по малой мере, преждевременны и преувеличенны.
      Skoro, odnako ž, obyvateli ubedilisʹ, što likovanija i nadeždy ix byli, po maloj mere, preždevremenny i preuveličenny.
      Soon, however, they realized that their hopes and rejoicing had been, to say the least, premature and excessive.

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