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Timely

adjective

(compar. timelier; superl. timeliest)

Before a time limit expires.

Done or happening at the appropriate or proper time. Synonyms: seasonable, well-timed, well timed. "With timely treatment the patient has a good chance of recovery" , "A seasonable time for discussion" , "The book's publication was well timed"

adverb

At an opportune time. Synonyms: apropos, seasonably, well-timed.

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"Timely" Quotes from Famous Books

... three-faced conspiracy was shattered. It was Spanish cannon that they had dreaded and now they could not thunder against the wooden walls in Kentucky. They crowded around the priest, too, and shook his hand and were grateful for his timely assistance. He had come at the most opportune of ...

— The Free Rangers - A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi • Joseph A. Altsheler

... but a meagre notion of the fulness and completeness of this admirable work. It will accomplish its object, if it send the reader to the book itself. The appearance of the volume is timely. Events and circumstances have prepared the minds of our countrymen to understand and to appreciate the argument. The book cannot fail to diffuse sounder views of the great topics which it discusses, and will exert, we trust, a beneficial influence on the legislation ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various

... is one of the great human needs, both in war and in peace, and knowing that Cousin Egbert will be sure to donate handsomely himself, he always having been the easiest mark in town; so they said they was much obliged for his timely suggestion and would he think up some novel feature for the bazaar; and he said he would if he could, and they went on to other ...

— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

... sister's child, his own next of kin! You may imagine the distress of the affectionate uncle at this deplorable miscarriage. To prevent inflammation of the wound he, with great presence of mind, plunged his pocket pistol in water, and this timely remedy proved so efficacious that the child took ...

— The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) • Sir James George Frazer

... this distinction that it had a purpose and that that purpose was achieved. For Bredow's charge in effect wrecked France. It arrested the French advance which would else have swept Alvensleben aside; and to its timely effect is traceable the sequence of events that ended in the capitulation of Metz. The fact that although from the beginning of his charge until he struck the front of the first French infantry line Bredow took the rifle-fire of a whole French division yet did not lose above ...

— Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places • Archibald Forbes

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