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Definition
after the expected or usual time
- We belated historians must not linger after his example; and if we did so, it is probable that our chat would be thin and eager, as if delivered from a campstool in a parrot-house.Book 2 — Old and Young (18% in)
- But the months gained on him and left his plans belated: he had only had time to ask for that promise by which he sought to keep his cold grasp on Dorothea's life.Book 5 — The Dead Hand (62% in)
There are no more uses of "belated" in Middlemarch.
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