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delayingly

delayingly adverb: so as to delay.

Adverb

delayingly (comparative more delayingly, superlative most delayingly)

  1. So as to delay.
    • And Annie could have wept for pity of him;
      And yet she held him on delayingly
      With many a scarce-believable excuse,
      Trying his truth and his long-sufferance,
      Till half-another year had slipt away.1864, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Enoch Arden
    • The mother glanced round at the bed, and said, glad to occupy herself delayingly with the minor care: “Why, you have been sitting up all night! You will kill yourself.”1885, William Dean Howells, chapter VII, in The Rise of Silas Lapham

delayingly meaning in Tamil

delayingly in Tamil

சுணங்கி, தாமதித்து

Forms of delayingly

comparativemore delayingly
superlativemost delayingly

Origin of delayingly

From delaying + -ly.

Questions about delayingly

What does delayingly mean?
Delayingly means so as to delay.
What is delayingly in Tamil?
Delayingly in Tamil is சுணங்கி, தாமதித்து. See Delayingly meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is delayingly?
Delayingly is an adverb.

Words near delayingly in the dictionary

  1. delayeth
  2. delayful
  3. delaying
  4. delaying tactic
  5. delaying tactics
  6. delayingly
  7. delayings
  8. delayism
  9. delayments
  10. delays
  11. Delbaugh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: delayingly (page history and authors); delayingly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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