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
• "_Festina lente_ -- celerity should be contempered with cunctation." —  Daniel Deronda
• 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

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