prematureness
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From the visit to which after leaving the Manor he had betaken himself, he had been recalled to London with peremptory prematureness by a telegram.
From Doctor Cupid by Rhoda Broughton
During the first few days of life, little Kazu was apparently normal, except for his prematureness and a rather great weight for a seven-month infant.
From The Image and the Likeness by John Scott Campbell
The fruitlessness of this expectation, and the prematureness of her bending her head out of the way, began to vex him a little at last.
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
She bit her lip in discomfiture; there was a prematureness about this frontier lance that made him exceedingly difficult to parry, skilled as she was in the subtle art of fence.
From The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer
And 178 this prematureness comes from its having proceeded without having its proper data, without sufficient materials to work with.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Andrew Cecil Bradley
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