Untime
adj, noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The absence of time; timelessness. countable, uncountable
"Actually, his apocalypse is a reverse cosmogony: he features himself as a monstrous Leviathan swallowing all the faithful, and the Untime celebrated by "unceasing" clock-chiming seals the reign of death and the return to pre-cosmogonic chaos. Death, not life, is what the imam has to offer to the faithful of Desh."
- 2 A wrong time; an unsuitable or improper time. countable, obsolete, often, uncountable
- 1 To cause to be done at the wrong time. transitive
"[…] which untimes the pleasant melodies of musical harmony, […]"
- 1 Untimely. obsolete
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More examples"Actually, his apocalypse is a reverse cosmogony: he features himself as a monstrous Leviathan swallowing all the faithful, and the Untime celebrated by "unceasing" clock-chiming seals the reign of death and the return to pre-cosmogonic chaos. Death, not life, is what the imam has to offer to the faithful of Desh."
Etymology
From Middle English untime, untyme, ontyme, from Old English untīma (“an unseasonable time”), from Proto-Germanic *untīmô, equivalent to un- + time. Cognate with Old Norse útími (dialectal Norwegian otime).
From Middle English untime, from Old English untīme.
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