opportuneness
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It is really directed against the dogma itself, which for a long time people could not believe, and not merely against the opportuneness of defining it.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger
The antecedent circumstances of the war, and the recent history of the French navy, gave a singular opportuneness of occasion, and of personal fitness, to Rodney's arrival at this moment.
From Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
It seemed an inopportune cheer, and for a moment it upset the orator: yet it was felicitous in opportuneness.
From Mark Twain by Archibald Henderson
Powers that are conscious of their opportuneness and utility do not like to lose time, but are prompt to act.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 by Robert Black
That old rascal has, with extraordinary suddenness and opportuneness, forgotten every word of English," he announced, "and pretends not to understand German.
From The Chauffeur and the Chaperon by Karl Anderson
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