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Meaning of Hastening | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The act of speeding up; a growing faster.

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Examples

“Miss D. had found that regular blinking, or a loud-ticking watch, or horizontal lines or marks on the ground, etc., similarly served to pace her, and to prevent the incontinent hastenings and retardations which otherwise marred her ambulation.”
“The secret seems to be a very precise control of the subtle slackenings and hastenings of tempo that are essential to Scriabin's idiom[…]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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