Citations:tempestivity

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English citations of tempestivity

Noun: "timeliness"

  • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia epidemica:
    This was the law of Moses, and this in the land of Canaan was well observed, according to the first institution: but since their dispersion and habitation in Countries, whose constitutions admit not such tempestivity of harvests
  • 1714, John Fox, Time and the end of time:
    This is called the season or tempestivity of time, when time, tide, and wind meet and clasp together.
  • 1994, B. J. Sokol, Art and illusion in The winter's tale:
    But the tempestivity I have in mind makes an awareness of the passage of time absolutely crucial.

Noun: "time period of a particular character"

  • 1569, Thomas Newton, The Worthye Booke of Old Age, translated from Cicero:
    The race and course of age is certain; and there is but one way of nature and the same simple; and to every part of a man's life and age are given his convenient times and proper tempestivities.