unhasting
English
Etymology
un- + hasting
Adjective
unhasting (comparative more unhasting, superlative most unhasting)
- Without haste.
- 1901, Stewart Edward White, The Claim Jumpers:
- He enjoyed to the full his ability to swing gorgeous involved sentences, phrase after phrase, down the long arc of rhetoric, without a pause, without a quiver, until they rushed unhasting up the other slope to end in beautiful words, polysyllabic, but with just the right number of syllables.
- 1911, Arnold Bennett, Hilda Lessways:
- A policeman with his arms hidden under his cloak marched unhasting downwards from the direction of the Bank.
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Anagrams
- Nighantus, hauntings, nighantus