Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which hastens or urges forward.
- noun Same as
haster .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who hastens.
- noun That which hastens; especially, a stand or reflector used for confining the heat of the fire to meat while roasting before it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Agent noun ofhasten ; one who hastens. - noun A
stand orreflector used for confining the heat of the fire to meat while roasting before it.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word hastener.
Examples
-
The United Kingdom was preparing to urge once more that a decision be reached at once when the South Africans forestalled this latest hastener by announcing their decision to us and to the United
ANC Today 2007
-
Self-preservation is impossible; self-assertion is a challenge to the assertiveness of other selves, as well as a hastener of dissolution.
-
The meat hastener and the Dutch oven conserved and radiated the heat, the joint turning slowly by the clockwork mechanism of the improved brass bottle jack.
-
In the near future we hope it will mean to all workers even more than a discipline, a storehouse of culture, a provider of joy and of pleasure, of care in sickness, of support in adversity, and best of all, a preparation for and a hastener on of that coöperative commonwealth for which more and more of us ever watch and pray.
The Trade Union Woman Alice Henry 1900
-
Oswald, in so professional a manner that he was instantly reinstated in public confidence; but when twenty minutes had passed, he looked perturbed, and thought he would use a little more of the hastener.
About Peggy Saville George de Horne Vaizey 1887
-
"A third altar -- to Mercury the hastener!" exclaimed Sergius.
The Lion's Brood Duffield Osborne 1887
-
As man recedes from one hastener of destruction, he inevitably approaches another:
The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844
-
The United Kingdom was preparing to urge once more that a decision be reached at once when the South Africans forestalled this latest hastener by announcing their decision to us and to the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand (that they were withdrawing their candidature). "
ANC Today 2007
-
"I have come back sooner than I intended," returned Pedro, "for war is a wonderful hastener, as well as dictator, of events; but I have to thank war for having given me a new friend.
The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America 1859
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.