Meanings
adjectivepræmature (comparative more præmature, superlative most præmature)
comparative more præmature · superlative most præmature
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of premature.
Gundamund appeared to emulate, or even to ſurpaſs, the cruelty of his uncle; and, if at length he relented, if he recalled the biſhops, and reſtored the freedom of Athanaſian worſhip, a præmature death intercepted the benefits of his tardy clemency.
1789, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume VI, page 251
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