Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Slowness; tardiness; dullness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Slowness; tardiness.
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- noun
Slowness ;tardiness .
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Examples
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Or is it not for the sake of the quality of the creature; which hath ever among the Heathens beene an _Hieroglyphick_ of heavinesse and tardity?
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While these gentlemen reasoned together of my death, we fortuned to come home, for the feare that I was in, caused my feet to turne into wings: after that we were discharged of our burthens, they went to their fellowes that were wounded, and told them of our great tardity and slownesse by the way, neither was I brought into small anguish, when I perceived my death prepared before my face: Why standest thou still Lucius?
The Golden Asse 1566
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