Seasonably vs Seasonally - What's the difference?
seasonably | seasonally |
In due season; at an opportune or fitting time.
* 1661 , , p. 6-7:
Varying with the season.
In a manner appropriate to the season.
(chiefly, legal) Within the appropriate time period during which an action will be legally effective, as prescribed in legislation, a contract, or otherwise.
* 2005 :
As adverbs the difference between seasonably and seasonally
is that seasonably is in due season; at an opportune or fitting time while seasonally is occurring every season.seasonably
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- ...having very long suspended our conference about the freshly mention'd Subject, it was so newly begun when you came in, that we shall scarce need to repeat any thing to acquaint you With what has pass'd betwixt us before your arrival, so that I cannot but look upon it as a fortunate Accident that you should come so seasonably , to be not hearers alone, but we hope Interlocutors at our conference.
ยง 1-204(3). The American Law Institute and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
- An action is taken "seasonably" when it is taken at or within the time agreed or if no time is agreed at or within a reasonable time.