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Definition of Belated
Belated

of Belate

Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted.

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Belated Quotations

While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.
Raul Grijalva

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.
Leon Askin

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
Irvin S. Cobb

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
Irvin S. Cobb

Belated Translations

belated in French is retardataire
belated in Italian is ritardato
belated in Norwegian is forsinket


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