cunctation

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English

WOTD – 2 February 2009

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin cūnctātiō (“a delaying, tarrying”), from cūnctor (“linger, hesitate”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

cunctation (countable and uncountable, plural cunctations)

  1. (obsolete) Delay, hesitation, procrastination.
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio Society 2007, p. 428:
      celerity should always be contempered with cunctation.

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