lingering
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Verb
lingering
Noun
lingering (plural lingerings)
- An act of lingering or waiting.
- 2000, David S. Reynolds, A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman (page 73)
- But through this insistent rhythm and rhyme, there are only questions and parenthetical pauses, interruptions and lingerings.
- 2000, David S. Reynolds, A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman (page 73)
- That which lingers; a remnant.
- Washington Irving
- The lingerings of decent pride were visible in her appearance. Her dress, though humble in the extreme, was scrupulously clean.
- Washington Irving
Translations
act of lingering or waiting
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