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Sojourn :: Sojourn (v. i.) To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry..

Protractive :: Protractive (a.) Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.

Reprieve :: Reprieve (v. t.) To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days..

Present :: Present (a.) Not delayed; immediate; instant; coincident.

Temporize :: Temporize (v. t.) To delay; to procrastinate.

Delayment :: Delayment (n.) Hindrance.

Belated :: Belated (a.) Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted.

Away :: Away (adv.) On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing away..

Flagging :: Flagging (a.) Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying..

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..

Respite :: Respite (n.) The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.

Put-off :: Put-off (n.) A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an excuse.

Tarry :: Tarry (v. i.) To delay; to put off going or coming; to loiter.

Filibuster :: Filibuster (v. i.) To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices..

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

Forbear :: Forbear (v. i.) To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay.

Tarry :: Tarry (n.) Stay; stop; delay.

Dally :: Dally (v. i.) To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle..

Lingeringly :: Lingeringly (adv.) With delay; slowly; tediously.

Protract :: Protract (n.) Tedious continuance or delay.

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