Definition of "unpunctuality"
unpunctuality
noun
countable and uncountable, plural unpunctualities
Quotations
Thank you—but there is no escaping these little vexations, Mary, live where we may; and when you are settled in town and I come to see you, I dare say I shall find you with yours, in spite of the nurseryman and the poulterer—or perhaps on their very account. Their remoteness and unpunctuality, or their exorbitant charges and frauds will be drawing forth bitter lamentations.
1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], page 84
Thirty-one years ago I joined a railway in rather a hurry. My father's sudden death had just released the Metropolitan from the most persistent, accurate and belligerent critic of its unpunctuality. We were brought up in the belief that all trains ran to time before the war - the Kaiser's war.
1960 April, G. F. Fiennes, “Unpunctuality - the cause and the cure”, in Trains Illustrated, page 205