opportune
adjective
appropriate, favorable, or suitable.
opportuneness
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a word derived from
opportune.
Example Sentences
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The force of speculative literature always hangs on practical opportuneness.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by John Morley
We are here in the very center of your Empire, and well in condition to judge of the opportuneness for an uprising.
From The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century by Eugène Sue
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 Orientalist and traveller, Arminius Vambéry.
From The Reconciliation of Races and Religions by Thomas Kelly Cheyne
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 Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable
Much was due to the opportuneness of the time.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park
