opportune
adjective
appropriate, favorable, or suitable.
opportuneness
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a word derived from
opportune.
Example Sentences
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Whilst we have pointed out the opportuneness of the Proclamation, it remains to be said that the President had no choice.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various
Not indeed the whole plan, but its opportuneness.
From The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The antecedent circumstances of the war, and the recent history of the French navy, gave a singular opportuneness of occasion, and of personal fitness, to Rodney's arrival at this moment.
From Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
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
