unhasting

English

Etymology

un- + hasting

Adjective

unhasting (comparative more unhasting, superlative most unhasting)

  1. Without haste.
    • 1901, Stewart Edward White, The Claim Jumpers:
      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.
    • 1911, Arnold Bennett, Hilda Lessways:
      A policeman with his arms hidden under his cloak marched unhasting downwards from the direction of the Bank.

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