cunctator

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  1. One who delays or lingers: as, Fabius Cunctator (the delayer). [Rare.] Unwilling to discourage such cunctators. Hammond, Works, I. 494.

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  1. = French cunctateur, from Latin cunctator, a delayer, lingerer (famous as a surname of the dictator Quintus Fabius Maximus), from cunctari, delay: see cunctation.
 

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