hurrying
English
Pronunciation
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Verb
hurrying
- present participle of hurry
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 10, in The China Governess[1]:
- With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
Noun
hurrying (plural hurryings)
- The act of one who hurries; hasty motion.
- 1832, Isaac Ambrose, Looking Unto Jesus
- Consider the hurryings of Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate; now he stands before Pilate where he was accused of sedition, seduction and usurpation.
- 1832, Isaac Ambrose, Looking Unto Jesus