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Intempestive

Intempestive \In`tem*pes"tive\, a. [L. intempestivus: cf. F. intempestif. See In- not, and Tempestive.] Out of season; untimely. [Obs.]
--Burton.

Intempestive bashfulness gets nothing.
--Hales.

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intempestive

a. (context now rare English) untimely, happening at an inappropriate moment.

Usage examples of "intempestive".

On peut juger maintenant quel effet produisit sur lui la brusque et intempestive survenue du cardinal.

The essay subject this week had been “One man's meat is another man's poison", and Clowes, whose idea of English Essay was that it should be a medium for intempestive frivolity, had insisted on his beginning with, “While I cannot conscientiously go so far as to say that one man's meat is another man's poison, yet I am certainly of opinion that what is highly beneficial to one man may, on the other hand, to another man, differently constituted, be extremely deleterious, and, indeed, absolutely fatal.