Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being belated, or of being too late; slowness; backwardness.
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- noun The state or quality of being
belated or of being too late. - noun
Slowness ;backwardness .
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Examples
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That kind of belatedness isn't explicit in "Credo", but I think Zawacki's particular brand of the conditional -- the violence in not knowing, perhaps -- shares something with deCerteau's words.
on poetry: Andrew Zawacki Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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That kind of belatedness isn't explicit in "Credo", but I think Zawacki's particular brand of the conditional -- the violence in not knowing, perhaps -- shares something with deCerteau's words.
Archive 2007-07-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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Some press representatives with whom I talked with agreed that the apparent purpose of this message - beyond the concern of real overreaction - was to divert attention from the belatedness of interest on the part of government agencies and policymakers.
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This belatedness renders much of what I might otherwise say redundant, since other, better critics have previously covered most of the things I would otherwise have said here: Dan 'Hart to Hart' Hartland, for instance a much more expert Holmesian than I gets it pretty much right, I think.
Archive 2010-07-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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Hence the belatedness of my take on this, one of last year's box-office hits.
Archive 2010-07-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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I am sorry to hear you're ill on your birthday weekend, and also for the belatedness of this 'happy birthday!
sick :( girliejones 2010
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This belatedness renders much of what I might otherwise say redundant, since other, better critics have previously covered most of the things I would otherwise have said here: Dan 'Hart to Hart' Hartland, for instance a much more expert Holmesian than I gets it pretty much right, I think.
Guy Ritchie, Holmes (2009) Adam Roberts 2010
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Hence the belatedness of my take on this, one of last year's box-office hits.
Guy Ritchie, Holmes (2009) Adam Roberts 2010
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If you're not hanging out with me on Facebook--most of you who know me are, I think, but presumably there are more of you out there, so sorry about this--you don't know that I have belatedly caught up with the rest of the world and discovered Project Runway, to great joy of discovery and great sadness of belatedness.
Archive 2009-04-01 Becca 2009
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If you're not hanging out with me on Facebook--most of you who know me are, I think, but presumably there are more of you out there, so sorry about this--you don't know that I have belatedly caught up with the rest of the world and discovered Project Runway, to great joy of discovery and great sadness of belatedness.
Facebook, Passover, Arab, Jew Becca 2009
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