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Untime
Definitions
- 1 Untimely. obsolete
- 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, […]"
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, 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.
See also for "untime"
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