Both Uses of
belated
in
Middlemarch
- 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.†
Chpt 2 *
- 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.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
after the expected or usual time