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unhasting en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + hasting.

Meanings

1. Without haste.
   • He enjoyed to the full his ability to swing gorgeous involved sentences, phrase after phrase, down the long arc of rhetoric, without a pause, without a quiver, until they rushed unhasting up the other slope to end in beautiful words, polysyllabic, but with just the right number of syllables. 1901, Stewart Edward White, The Claim Jumpers:
   • A policeman with his arms hidden under his cloak marched unhasting downwards from the direction of the Bank. 1911, Arnold Bennett, Hilda Lessways:

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