prematureness
Example Sentences
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From the visit to which after leaving the Manor he had betaken himself, he had been recalled to London with peremptory prematureness by a telegram.
From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda
She bit her lip in discomfiture; there was a prematureness about this frontier lance that made him exceedingly difficult to parry, skilled as she was in the subtle art of fence.
From The Song of the Wolf by Mayer, Frank
What I meant was less to call in question Chatterton's genius, than to object to the common mode of estimating its magnitude by its prematureness.
From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney
And 178 this prematureness comes from its having proceeded without having its proper data, without sufficient materials to work with.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil
It is really ridiculous to see the uneasiness and prematureness of most persons as the boat begins to approach the shore.
From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various
