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
“That’s right, Glanton,” said Kendrew, who had entered with an opportuneness that under other and less interested circumstances I should have regarded as suspicious.
From A Frontier Mystery by Bertram Mitford
The opportuneness of that fellow's coming was phenomenal.
From A Young Girl's Wooing by Edward Payson Roe
Foresight reveals to the mind the opportuneness of the needed measure by which a solution is to be given, a question decided, and the hoped-for results obtained.
From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
Whether these desertions will be numerous enough to reduce the minority to 40 or 50, as the authorities hope, will be determined when the question of opportuneness gets disentangled from the question of principle.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger
