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† ˈlateliness Obs. rare.
Also 4 latlynes.
[f. next + -ness.]
a. Tardiness.
b. Recency.
a1340Hampole Psalter xxxix. 24 Þat hulynes [MS. S. latlynes] þat he will not bifell. 1605Raleigh Introd. Hist. Eng. (1693) 2 A Work difficult, as well for the Antiquity, as the Lateliness of things done. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God xv. xx. 557 The latelinesse of maturity, whereby they were not enabled to generation vntill they were aboue one hundred yeares old. |
