hastening
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
hastening
- present participle and gerund of hasten
Noun[edit]
hastening (plural hastenings)
- The act of speeding up; a growing faster.
- 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
- Miss D. had found that regular blinking, or a loud-ticking watch, or horizontal lines or marks on the ground, etc., similarly served to pace her, and to prevent the incontinent hastenings and retardations which otherwise marred her ambulation.
- 1991, Christopher Pollard, The Good CD guide, 1992:
- The secret seems to be a very precise control of the subtle slackenings and hastenings of tempo that are essential to Scriabin's idiom […]
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
act of speeding up; a growing faster
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