cunctation
English
WOTD – 2 February 2009
Noun
cunctation (countable and uncountable, plural cunctations)
- (obsolete) Delay, hesitation, procrastination.
- 1646, Browne, Sir Thomas, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio Society, published 2007, page 428:
- celerity should always be contempered with cunctation.
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Synonyms
- dilation, hold-up; see also Thesaurus:delay
Derived terms
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