Retarding

Definitions

A slowing or hindrance.

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Examples

“It resembled them in the sense⟳ that it was not ended, when it was past, but continued to unfold, in Watt's head, from beginning to end⟳, over and over again, the complex connexions of its lights and shadows, the passing from silence to sound⟳ and from sound⟳ to silence, the stillness before the movement and the stillness after, the quickenings and retardings, the approaches and the separations, all the shifting detail of its march⟳ and ordinance, according to the irrevocable caprice of its taking place⟳.”

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