All 3 Uses of
belated
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- And so you see, sir, as all this happened just when we was packing your few traps and your Mis'ess's night-rail and dressing things into the cart, why, it belated me.†
Chpt 4
- Here was I thinking you a new-sprung child of nature; there were you, the belated seedling of an effete aristocracy!†
Chpt 5 *
- She had walked all the way from her mother's home on the previous afternoon, and, not deeming the distance so great, had been belated, arriving, however, just before the snow began, and sleeping at the alehouse.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
after the expected or usual time