seasonableness

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Aside from the nature of the proposition and the way it is presented, there is the all-important element of seasonableness.

From Business Correspondence by Anonymous

But what I wish to dwell on now is not so much the quantity of vegetable produce we ought to consume, as the necessity of its seasonableness.

From Household Organization by Caddy, Florence

But, notwithstanding the seasonableness of the event, and the familiarity of the crime in that age, no shadow of imputation was ever cast on the pure fame of Isabella.

From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by Prescott, William Hickling

In Colonel Pyncheon's funeral sermon, which was printed, and is still extant, the Rev. Mr. Higginson enumerates, among the many felicities of his distinguished parishioner's earthly career, the happy seasonableness of his death.

From House of the Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

This is one of those fugitive and casual precautions, which, by intense seasonableness, takes its rank amongst the permanent means of pacification.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various