Sekirov Dictionary

timely

/ˈtaɪm.li/

adjective 3
adverb 3
forms 4

adjective3

Done at the proper time or within the proper time limits; prompt.
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Happening or appearing at the proper time.
- […] and the timely dew of sleep, / Now falling with soft slumbrous weight, inclines / Our eye-lids […] — 1667
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(no longer used) Keeping time or measure.
- High lifted up were many loftie towres, / And goodly galleries farre over laid, / Full of faire windowes and delightful bowres; / And on the top a Diall told the timely howres. — 1590

adverb3

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In compliance with applicable time limits.
- On May 14, 1997, the jury convicted the defendant, who currently is serving a fifteen-month sentence. The defendant timely appeals. — 1998
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(no longer used) At the right time; seasonably.
- And this we shall more readily perform, if we timely survey our knowledge, impartially singling out those encroachments, which junior compliance and popular credulity hath admitted. — 1646
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(no longer used) In good time; early, quickly.
- If I had been born more timely, he said, Rhaegar would have married me instead of Elia, and it would all have come out different. — 2000

forms

more timely · timelier · most timely · timeliest

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