prematureness
Example Sentences
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What I meant was less to call in question Chatterton's genius, than to object to the common mode of estimating its magnitude by its prematureness.
From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney
It is really ridiculous to see the uneasiness and prematureness of most persons as the boat begins to approach the shore.
From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various
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 Bradley, Andrew Cecil
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 Mayer, Frank
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
