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Timely

//ˈtaɪmli// adj, adv

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Adjective

1
Done at the proper time or within the proper time limits; prompt.
"If the whistleblower submitted a timely response, pursuant to Step 9, the Claims Review Staff will consider the issues, along with any supporting documentation, and make its Proposed Final Determination."
2
Happening or appearing at the proper time.
"[…] and the timely dew of sleep, / Now falling with soft slumbrous weight, inclines / Our eye-lids […]"
3
Keeping time or measure. obsolete
"High lifted up were many loftie towres, / And goodly galleries farre over laid, / Full of faire windowes and delightful bowres; / And on the top a Diall told the timely howres."

Adjective

1
done or happening at the appropriate or proper time wordnet
2
before a time limit expires wordnet

Adverb

1
In good time; early, quickly. archaic
"If I had been born more timely, he said, Rhaegar would have married me instead of Elia, and it would all have come out different."
2
At the right time; seasonably. obsolete
"And this we shall more readily perform, if we timely survey our knowledge, impartially singling out those encroachments, which junior compliance and popular credulity hath admitted."
3
In compliance with applicable time limits.
"On May 14, 1997, the jury convicted the defendant, who currently is serving a fifteen-month sentence. The defendant timely appeals."

Adverb

1
at an opportune time wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English timely, tymely, timliche, from Old English *tīmlīc (adjective) and tīmlīċe (“in good time; timely; soon”, adverb), equivalent to time + -ly. Cognate with Danish timelig, Swedish timlig, Icelandic tímalegur, tímanlegur.

Etymology 2

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