Adjective : an opportune phrase for the occasion. ,an opportune warning. From Dictionary.com.
I am only speaking of the matter of opportuneness and expediency. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
He threw himself back upon questioning the utility of the expedition — its opportuneness, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Five Weeks in a Balloon] Reference
It is by the favourableness or otherwise (of time and place) that the opportuneness of an act is determined. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
"Can you do that again whenever we feel the need of sunlight?" asked Varian as the girls giggled over the opportuneness. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle Town] Reference
This was decidedly Lindsay's own view though it was clearly understood that the opportuneness of the motion lay in ministerial desire for and need of support in its Danish policy. From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference
The opportuneness of their arrival attracted notice. From Wordnik.com. [The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence] Reference
The force of speculative literature always hangs on practical opportuneness. From Wordnik.com. [Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)] Reference
She almost forgives Violet her existence for the opportuneness of the accident. From Wordnik.com. [Floyd Grandon's Honor] Reference
The money had come with such infernal opportuneness that he could not help welcoming it. From Wordnik.com. [The Touchstone] Reference
He tasted her in sips, he let her stand, with an opportuneness she herself could not have surpassed. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1] Reference
As we have said before, the immediate force of speculative literature hangs on practical opportuneness. From Wordnik.com. [Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)] Reference
Agricola, he was happy, not only in the splendor of his life, but also in the opportuneness of his death. From Wordnik.com. [The Humble Conqueror: A Discourse Commemorative of the Life and Services of Abraham Lincoln.] Reference
Powers that are conscious of their opportuneness and utility do not like to lose time, but are prompt to act. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5] Reference
It seemed an inopportune cheer, and for a moment it upset the orator: yet it was felicitous in opportuneness. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain]
Welles suggested to the Preacher the opportuneness of a prayer of thanksgiving, which the latter offered in a becoming manner. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret] Reference
The theologian Maret, famous for his writings against the opportuneness of the definition of infallibility, was the last primate. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
As a special reason for the opportuneness, and even necessity, of the new council, he alleged the appeal of the deposed Flavian of. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
I know of no publication having for its existence and possibilities such inspirations and rare opportuneness as your bright journal. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman's Era, Vol. 1, No. 3] Reference
The opportuneness of the Baha movement is brought into a bright light by the following extract from a letter to the Master from the great. From Wordnik.com. [The Reconciliation of Races and Religions] Reference
Cardinal de Noailles = = which shows that his difficulty was not a doctrinal one, but arose rather from considerations of discipline and opportuneness. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
The Congregation of Propaganda makes a preliminary study of the question and passes judgment on the opportuneness of the creation of the diocese in question. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
The government no longer acts in the best interests of our country, but in accordance with the liberal whims and fads of political opportuneness and power grabs. From Wordnik.com. [SmallGovTimes.com] Reference
The allusion was neither to boat nor stream but to a certain opportuneness of things, whose obviousness to them, looking down, was mainly what kept Ramsey standing. From Wordnik.com. [Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi] Reference
From the greatness or rather indispensableness of the good at stake, the opportuneness and even necessity of preventive and strictly binding measures undoubtedly follow. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
This welcome work on the tragic story of the Polish people and on the glories of their great national literature is singularly happy in the opportuneness of its appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Kościuszko A Biography] Reference
He talked with her largely, treated her with conspicuous civility, occupied himself with her and let her alone, with an opportuneness which she herself could not have surpassed. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XXIII] Reference
Some friends wished him to publish the paper as a contribution to criticism; but his own doubts as to the opportuneness of so doing were confirmed by a letter from Mr. John Morley, then editor of the. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2] Reference
"That old rascal has, with extraordinary suddenness and opportuneness, forgotten every word of English," he announced, "and pretends not to understand German. From Wordnik.com. [The Chauffeur and the Chaperon] Reference
The opportuneness of Hooker's writings. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Book of Common Prayer] Reference
" asked Varian as the girls giggled over the opportuneness. From Wordnik.com. [Dinosaur Planet]
Circumstances of practical opportuneness. From Wordnik.com. [Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)] Reference
4); prompt, so as to warrant opportuneness (Prov., iii, 28); secret and humble (Matt., vi, 2); cheerful (II Cor., ix, 7); abundant (Tob., iv, 9; St. Thomas, Summa Theol. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
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