Definition for PRE-MA-TURE-NESS, or PRE-MA-TU'RI-TY

PRE-MA-TURE-NESS, or PRE-MA-TU'RI-TY, n.

  1. Ripeness before the natural or proper time.
  2. Too great haste; unseasonable earliness. – Warton.

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