belatedness
Example Sentences
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They are born, if you like, into belatedness.
From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2023
You need not equate him exactly with his stand-in to see that in “Leopoldstadt,” by punishing Leo for his belatedness, he is punishing himself for his own.
From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2022
Those assumptions were belied, obviously, by McCarthy’s success, the belatedness of his downfall, and the abuses of power that greater and lesser figures have managed to get away with since.
From Slate • May 3, 2018
Rommel is all too aware of the belatedness of his efforts, and the fact that time is running out.
From The Guardian • Aug. 31, 2017
Of late years they are growing conscious of their own belatedness, and that touches a tender spot.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace
