Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of staying, delaying. or lingering; delay.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A delaying tarrying; delay.
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- noun obsolete A
delay .
Etymologies
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Examples
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These holy cakes, which are in comme - moration of the injunction of Nanac, to eat and to give to others to eat, next receive the salutation of the assembly, who then rise, and the A calls pray aloud, while the musicians play.
Sketch of the Sikhs; a singular nation, who inhabit the provinces of the Penjab, situated between the rivers Jumna and Indus Malcolm, John, Sir, 1769-1833 1812
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It is devoted to the comme - moration of the ecclesiastical reformation which was brought about by Luther and other gene - rous friends of truth and human happiness.
Sermons on Prevalent Errors, and Vices and on Various Other Topics Georg Joachim Zollikofer 1812
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* and then burfts forth into an hiftorical comme - moration of God*s mercies to his People and the wifeft inftrudioni*
Historical and Familiar Essays, on the Scriptures of the Old Testament: By John Collier, ... In ... 1791
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