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timesome, adj.

Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈtʌɪms(ə)m/,  U.S. /ˈtaɪmsəm/

Forms: see time n., int., and conj. and -some suffix1

Etymology: <  time n. + -some suffix1. Compare timely adj. 2.
 rare.
 
Of, relating to, existing in, or subject to time, esp. as opposed to eternity; of finite duration; temporal; (also) time-consuming.

1674  N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 33 Everlastingness is no more All at Once, as a Now of Time is,..than it is it self Timesom.

1674  N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 181 When we say, the body is dying or timesom, the soul deathless or endless, we do not mean the body should thereby lose its bodyhood, but only its suchness.

1826  J. Browning tr.  L. Pignotti His. Tuscany III. x. 326 All the provisions..are to be found in the Archive of the reformations, and it would be timesome and useless to repeat them.

2002 Re: Why does Mozilla eat so much CPU Time? in netscape.publicmozilla.general (Usenet newsgroup) 13 Feb., I don't think anyone has to go through that timesome process of adding the profile dir [i.e. directory] file by file.

Derivatives

 ˈtimesomeness n.

1674  N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 154 God..may as well be brought down to the timesomness of that which is bounded, as that which is every way bounded, may be lifted up to the alwayness of him who is unbounded.

2000 Rust Talks (Electronic ed.) No. 3, Where is it that you said we find now? Ah, in the timesomeness of things.

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