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Instant :: Instant (a.) Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay.

Delay :: Delay (n.) To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.

Contango :: Contango (n.) The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day..

Homage :: Homage (n.) Respect or reverential regard; deference; especially, respect paid by external action; obeisance..

Defervescency :: Defervescency (n.) The subsidence of a febrile process; as, the stage of defervescence in pneumonia..

Deferent :: Deferent (n.) That which carries or conveys.

Prorogue :: Prorogue (v. t.) To end the session of a parliament by an order of the sovereign, thus deferring its business..

Dilatory :: Dilatory (a.) Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant..

Deferent :: Deferent (a.) Serving to carry; bearing.

Forsooth :: Forsooth (n.) A person who used forsooth much; a very ceremonious and deferential person.

Adjourn :: Adjourn (v. t.) To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate..

Defer :: Defer (v. t.) To render or offer.

Defer :: Defer (v. t.) To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.

Deference :: Deference (n.) A yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the wishes or opinion of another; submission in opinion; regard; respect; complaisance.

Prorogue :: Prorogue (v. t.) To defer; to delay; to postpone; as, to proroguedeath; to prorogue a marriage..

Worship :: Worship (a.) Honor; respect; civil deference.

Deferentially :: Deferentially (adv.) With deference.

Deferrer :: Deferrer (n.) One who defers or puts off.

Dutiful :: Dutiful (a.) Controlled by, proceeding from, a sense of duty; respectful; deferential; as, dutiful affection..

Defer :: Defer (v. t.) To lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to refer; -- with to.

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