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un-tíma

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
un-tíma, an; m.
a wrong time, an improper time
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  • Se lǽce ðonne hé on untíman lácnaþ wunde, hió wyrmseþ and rotaþ

    secta immature vulnera deterius infervescunt,

    • Past. 21
    • ;
    • Swt. 153, 2.
  • Hé wilnaþ hǽlo tó late and on untíman, ðonne hé ǽr nolde hié gehealdan, ðá dá hé hí hæfde

    salus infructuose ad ultimum quaeritur, quae congruo concessa tempore utiliter non habetur,

    • 36
    • ;
    • Swt. 249, 8.
  • Ǽlc ðæra manna ðe yt oððe drincð on untíman on ðam hálgan lenctene oððe on rihtfæsten-dagum,

    • Homl. Skt. i. 12, 76: Anglia xi. 113, 26.
a bad time, an unhappy condition of things, a mishap (cf. French malheur)
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  • Ic ásende ofer eówer land ǽlcne untíman, ðæt bið egeslíce greát hagol, se fordéð eówre wæstmas, and unásecgendlíce þunras...,

    • Wulfst. 297, 7.
Etymology
[Continentia, þat is, þat man þe spuse haveð, his golliche deden wiðteo, swo hit be untime,
  • Rel. Ant. i. 132, 18.
Vres misseide, oðer in untime,
  • A. R. 344, 3.
A man schulde not ete in untyme,
  • Chauc. Pers. T.
In vntyme ne shulde no bourde on bedde be,
  • Piers P. 9, 186.
Icel. ú-tími a wrong time (koma í útíma to come too late); an evil time, mishap.
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v.  un-tíme un-tímness.
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  • un-tíma, n.