cunctation

• That ever prospered by cunctation. —  The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2
• Liegnitz itself, was not that (as many opine) a disaster due to cunctation, not of Loudon's? —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20
• The old crossing-sweeper was already there, to receive his penny; and the orange-woman, expectant, sold her apex orange to him for a silver thripenny bit as his before-breakfast while awaiting the more dignified cunctation of his auguster spouse. —  Pirate Gold
• Russians and Reichsfolk, these are a pair of thumbscrews on both thumbs of Daun; screwing the cunctation out of him; painfully intimating: "Get rid of this Prince Henri; you must, you must!" —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19
• George's sincerity of wish is perhaps underrated by Friedrich; who indeed knows well enough on which side George's wishes would fall, if they had liberty (which they have not), but much overrates "the astucity" of poor George and his English; ascribing, as is often done, to fine-spun attorneyism what is mere cunctation, ignorance, negligence, and other forms of a stupidity perhaps the most honest in the world! —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13

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