hastening
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]hastening
- present participle and gerund of hasten
Noun
[edit]hastening (plural hastenings)
- The act of speeding up; a growing faster.
- 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
- Miss D. had found that regular blinking, or a loud-ticking watch, or horizontal lines or marks on the ground, etc., similarly served to pace her, and to prevent the incontinent hastenings and retardations which otherwise marred her ambulation.
- 1991, Christopher Pollard, The Good CD guide, 1992:
- The secret seems to be a very precise control of the subtle slackenings and hastenings of tempo that are essential to Scriabin's idiom […]
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]act of speeding up; a growing faster
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