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Timely   /tˈaɪmli/   Listen
adjective
Timely  adj.  (compar. timelier; superl. timeliest)  
1.
Being or occurring in good time; sufficiently early; seasonable. "The timely dew of sleep."
2.
Keeping time or measure.


adverb
Timely  adv.  Early; soon; in good season. "Timely advised, the coming evil shun." "Thanks to you, That called me timelier than my purpose hither, For I have gained by it."





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"Timely" Quotes from Famous Books



... forth again into the street, it was quite empty, and I breathed again; but alas, I had not turned three corners, when I once more observed the human hound pursuing me. Not an hour was to be lost; timely submission might yet preserve a life which otherwise was forfeit and dishonoured; and I fled, with what speed you may conceive, to the Paris agency of the ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... off, and Millicent Graham studied him as he stood in the moonlight. She did not think he recognized her, and perhaps he was hardly justified in supposing that his timely aid at the gangway dispensed with the need for an introduction, but she liked his looks, which she remembered well. She had no fear of this man's presuming too far; and his surprise when she mentioned Mrs. Keith, ...
— The Intriguers • Harold Bindloss
... circumstances to give the impression of danger. An imaginative man could see the red flag that she constantly carried, waving it wildly, beseechingly—and, alas, to little spectacular avail. She was also tremendously timely: she knew the latest songs, all the latest songs—when one of them was played on the phonograph she would rise to her feet and rock her shoulders back and forth and snap her fingers, and if there was no music she would ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... then and there but for the timely assistance of a young gold-digger who happened to hear about me when he came up to the city from his ...
— Victor's Triumph - Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... doing its own part of the general work required for the life and vigor of the human organism. These organs should all work in harmony for the good of the whole. We must have some means of knowing whether this harmony is maintained, and of receiving timely warning if any organ fails to do its ...
— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell


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