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Respite :: Respite (n.) Temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest; pause; delay..

Retardation :: Retardation (n.) The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration..

Latered :: Latered (a.) Inclined to delay; dilatory.

Respite :: Respite (n.) To delay or postpone; to put off.

Delayment :: Delayment (n.) Hindrance.

Delays :: Delays (pl. ) of Dela.

Cunctative :: Cunctative (a.) Slow; tardy; dilatory; causing delay.

Suspensor :: Suspensive (a.) Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful..

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

Lag :: Lag (a.) Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end..

Detention :: Detention (n.) The state of being detained (stopped or hindered); delay from necessity.

Roundelay :: Roundelay (n.) See Rondeau, and Rondel..

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..

Bode :: Bode (n.) A stop; a halting; delay.

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation.

Dilatorily :: Dilatorily (adv.) With delay; tardily.

Moration :: Moration (n.) A delaying tarrying; delay.

Forslack :: Forslack (v. t.) To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.

Dilation :: Dilation (n.) Delay.

Weather-bound :: Weather-bound (a.) Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel..

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