Meaning of delayingly | Babel Free

Definitions

So as to delay.

Examples

“And Annie could have wept for pity of him; And yet she held him on delayingly With many a scarce-believable excuse, Trying his truth and his long-sufferance, Till half-another year had slipt away.”

“The mother glanced round at the bed, and said, glad to occupy herself delayingly with the minor care: “Why, you have been sitting up all night! You will kill yourself.””

“He was unpacking too, though as coyly and delayingly as he had undressed that day at the Highgate Ponds.”

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