delayingly

English

Etymology

From delaying +‎ -ly.

Adverb

delayingly (comparative more delayingly, superlative most delayingly)

1. So as to delay.
   • 1864, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Enoch Arden‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 1885, William Dean Howells, chapter VII, in The Rise of Silas Lapham‎^[2]:

     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.”

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

     He was unpacking too, though as coyly and delayingly as he had undressed that day at the Highgate Ponds.