Adjective : a premature announcement. From Dictionary.com.
I perceived from the first day all the importance of that event, but also its prematureness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
It is really ridiculous to see the uneasiness and prematureness of most persons as the boat begins to approach the shore. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
But it was cold, nevertheless, on this March night, particularly for Grace, who with the sanguine prematureness of youth in matters of dress, had considered it spring-time, and hence was not so warmly clad as Mrs. Charmond, who still wore her winter fur. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
I had been roaming through the grounds meditating upon her many charms, and of how best I could make my offer so as not to agitate her by its seeming prematureness, when I was very much troubled on coming to the conservatory (meaning to enter) to see you, a powerful rival, in the blissful retirement of this boudoir with the woman I have, perhaps unfortunately, conceived, such passionate love for. From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
As for herself, she merely complained of a prematureness and crudity best unanalyzed. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
And this prematureness comes from its having proceeded without having its proper data, without sufficient material to work with. From Wordnik.com. [The Second-Order Mind] Reference
Nor have we drawn with too exaggerating a pencil, nor, though Isabel's mind was older than her years, extended that prematureness to her heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Disowned — Complete] Reference
What I meant was less to call in question Chatterton's genius, than to object to the common mode of estimating its magnitude by its prematureness. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution] Reference
All sneering at prematureness aside, President Barack Hussein Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize today pretty much locks up another award for him -- the. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Grace, who with the sanguine prematureness of youth in matters of dress, had considered it spring-time, and hence was not so warmly clad as Mrs. Charmond, who still wore her winter fur. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
On the contrary, she would have expressed the prettiest surprise and disapprobation if she had heard that another young lady had been detected in that immodest prematureness -- indeed, would probably have disbelieved in its possibility. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
In fine phrase it was said of him that he lectured upon such themes as Plato and Socrates "with a prematureness of scholarship, a delicacy of discernment, a sweet innocent combination of confidence and diffidence, which were inexpressibly charming.". From Wordnik.com. [Starr King in California] Reference
With experience, as with death, it is the prematureness that hurts. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Touch of Sun and Other Stories] Reference
Professor for prematureness. From Wordnik.com. [Somehow Good] Reference
From hence distempers of body and mind; from hence an infinity of irregular desires, unlawful amours, intrigues, vapours, and whimsies, and all the numerous, melancholy croud of deep hysterical symptoms; from hence it comes to pass that the fruit of their bodies lie in them like plants in hot-beds; from hence it proceeds that our British maids, who in the time of our Henrys, were not held marriageable till turned of twenty, are now become falling ripe at twelve, and forced to prematureness, by the heat of adventitious fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland]
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