timeous
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"The absence of timeous diagnosis resulted in Mr Cocozza losing two opportunities," he concluded.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2014
All these require your timeous assistance;—shall I say, they beg it?
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
His retreat was timeous, for General Mackay, who commanded for the Prince of Orange, had despatched a strong force, with instructions to make him prisoner.
From Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems by W. E. (William Edmondstoune) Aytoun
Yet the Foundress showed a tenderness for human weakness by permitting the Fellows and Scholars to play cards in Hall on some of the Gaudy days for "moderate stakes and at timeous hours."
From The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham college, Oxford; master of Trinity college, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester by P. A. (Patrick Arkley) Wright Henderson
It was a needful caveat, and a very timeous advertisement, because of the natural misapprehensions in men's minds of the gospel.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
