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Hastening

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of speeding up; a growing faster.

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of hasten form-of, gerund, participle, present

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