Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Seasonable; timely; sufficiently early.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Seasonable; timely; sufficiently early.
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- adjective rare At the
due time.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nowadays, we imagine that these activities were "timeless"; it would be truer to say that they were "timeful", sometimes taking days for preparation, and days for performance.
Now please pay attention everybody. I'm about to tell you what art is | Germaine Greer 2011
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One beep, in a semi-timeful fashion, and a red light when I return.
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They please by the form and colour of their blossoms, and ring ever-recurring and timeful changes, so that month by month we enjoy the progress of the perfumes, the blending of some, the individual excellence of others.
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"I thought deserts were supposed to be timeless, not timeful."
The Day of the Dissonance Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984
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"I thought deserts were supposed to be timeless, not timeful."
The Day of the Dissonance Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984
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Several couples had wandered in there to rest and, as the orchestra struck up something new that seemed to have the "punch" to its timeful measures, they gradually rejoined the dancers.
The Ear in the Wall 1908
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It is not true that a timeless sense-awareness and a timeless thought combine to contemplate a timeful nature.
The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904
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They please by the form and colour of their blossoms, and ring ever-recurring and timeful changes, so that month by month we enjoy the progress of the perfumes, the blending of some, the individual excellence of others.
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De Foe evinces, by thefe timeful publications, that amidfl all that enthufiafm and tumult, he preferved his fenfes, and adhered to his principles.
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Of York ... 1790
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