Delaying

Definitions

A delay.

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] a hearing, with a file⟳ of orders in the solicitor's bundle, as big as the common-prayer-book, for commissions, injunctions, publications, speedings, delayings, and other interlocutories; all dear ware to the client in every respect⟳.”

“However, there was no profit in cowardly delayings; booted and breeched, we sallied forth into a cold, ungenial morning such as you get⟳ in Switzerland […]”

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