timeous
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"The absence of timeous diagnosis resulted in Mr Cocozza losing two opportunities," he concluded.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2014
All these require your timeous assistance;—shall I say, they beg it?
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir
Yet the Foundress showed a tenderness for human weakness by permitting the Fellows and Scholars to play cards in Hall on some of the Gaudy days for "moderate stakes and at timeous hours."
From The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham college, Oxford; master of Trinity college, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester by Wright Henderson, P. A. (Patrick Arkley)
Troops on the march in an enemy's country, unless they are led by an idiot, will send out clouds of scouts in front and on the wings to give timeous warning of any attempted assault.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Maclaren, Alexander
The next letter from the Shepherd thanks Murray for some "timeous" aid, and asks a novel favour.
From A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 by Smiles, Samuel
