unseasonableness

"unseasonableness" of the weather, finding responses few and absently given, relapsed into silence.

Mary-'Gusta Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

I could not give any connected detail yesterday; but the suddenness, and, in one light, the unseasonableness with which the affair burst out, needs explanation; for though the event of the 26th ult., as you will conclude, immediately opened to me the happiest prospects, I should not have presumed on such early measures, but from the very particular circumstances, which left me not an hour to lose.

Emma 2004

And though he was a senator, yet, thinking that one of the least of his excellences, he valued himself more upon a sort of cynical liberty of speaking what he pleased, which sometimes, indeed, did away with the rudeness and unseasonableness of his addresses with those that would interpret it in jest.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

A national literature must negotiate geographical and social divides in the manner depicted in that phrase "a letter [sent] to Maple Grove by one lady, to Ireland by another"; it is by definition susceptible to the same problems of unseasonableness and irrelevancy that make Mr. Weston's conundrum about the letters of perfection so mal à propos.

Social Theory at Box Hill: Acts of Union 2000

I could not give any connected detail yesterday; but the suddenness, and, in one light, the unseasonableness with which the affair burst out, needs explanation; for though the event of the 26th ult., as you will conclude, immediately opened to me the happiest prospects,

Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001

The first comprehends a desire for delicate foods, flavor, and novelty because of expense or unseasonableness, exquisite preparation, or a desire for unnecessary variety.

Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

The first comprehends a desire for delicate foods, flavor, and novelty because of expense or unseasonableness, exquisite preparation, or a desire for unnecessary variety.

Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

Would you forbear sermons and sacraments so many years on pretense of unseasonableness?

The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974

Was there no call in the great unseasonableness of the year?

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

Wherefore the hindrance by rot is rather to be ascribed to the unseasonableness and moisture of the weather in summer, also their licking in of mildews, gossamire, rowtie fogs, and rank grass, full of superfluous juice, but especially

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart