unpremature
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unpremature (comparative more unpremature, superlative most unpremature)
- (rare) Not premature; timely.
- 1809, David Morrice, Mentor, or The moral conduct of youth from the academy to manhood:
- Surrounded by their children, their gradual and unpremature decay conducts them, by gentle degrees, to the peaceful grave […]
- 1818, Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c, page 360:
- The advanced age of her Majesty rendered death unpremature, and though the loss is deeply and long to be deplored, the accompanying circumstances at least were not so distressing […]