delayingly
advEtymology From delaying + -ly.
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So as to delay.
- 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.1864, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Enoch Arden:
- 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.”1885, William Dean Howells, chapter VII, in The Rise of Silas Lapham:
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- He was unpacking too, though as coyly and delayingly as he had undressed that day at the Highgate Ponds.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN: