Citations:tempestivity

English citations of tempestivity

Noun: "timeliness"

• 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia epidemica‎^[1]:

  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^[2]:

  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^[3]:

  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^[4]:

  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.