[f. prec.] The quality or fact of being unseasonable: a. Of weather.
1523. Fitzherb., Husb., § 14. The vnseasonablenes of the wether.
1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., I. 2 b. Yf either the vnseasonablenesse of the weather, or sicknesse cause me to keepe my bed.
1600. Surflet, Country Farme, V. x. 674. The Oxen … better indure the vnseasonablenes of times, and … draw a deeper draught.
1695. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), III. 515. The lords justices, considering the unseasonablenesse of the weather, have … prohibited the exportation of corn.
1796. Phil. Trans., LXXXVI. 280. During last January, nothing was more common than to hear expressions of the unseasonableness of the weather.
b. Of time.
1548. Udall, Erasm. Par. Luke, iv. 49 b. He neuer did so muche as laie for his excuse the importunitee or vnseasonablenesse of tyme.
1628. in Rushw., Hist. Coll. (1659), I. 582. Our next Argument is drawn … from the unseasonableness of the time.
1656. Earl Monm., trans. Boccalini’s Pol. Touchstone (1674), 273. About one a clock at night, forty Carts … were seen to enter the Royal Palace…: and because of the unseasonableness of the time … inquiry was made [etc.].
1694. Phil. Trans., XVIII. 45. They were generally taken notice of,… because of the unseasonableness of the time for Grashoppers.
1748. Watts, Disc. Educ. Childr., ix. (1795), 177. The unseasonableness of the midnight hour [for dancing].
c. Of actions, etc.
1610. Healey, Theophrastus (1616), 49. Vnseasonnablenesse is a troublesome … assaulting of those with whom we haue to doe.
1693. Mem. Ct. Teckely, III. 28. The unseasonableness of the ill Policy of the Turks.
1741. Richardson, Pamela, IV. 387. Forgive, dearest Sir, the Unseasonableness of your very impertinent … Pamela.
1799. Han. More, Fem. Educ. (ed. 4), I. 14. A sneer, not at the truth of religion,… but at its gravity, its unseasonableness.
1815. Jane Austen, Emma, l. The suddenness and … the unseasonableness with which the affair burst out.
1884. Manch. Exam., 1 July, 3/1. The unseasonableness of the proposed discussion.
