Cunctatory

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    delaying; procrastinating

    "Indeed, for several weeks the time rushed by, and it was really only in the final month, when freedom grew palpably close, that every minute took on a crabwise, cunctatory manner, came near to stalling altogether."

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"Indeed, for several weeks the time rushed by, and it was really only in the final month, when freedom grew palpably close, that every minute took on a crabwise, cunctatory manner, came near to stalling altogether."

Etymology

From Latin cunctor (“delay, impede”).

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