tardier

Never mind exile, Dale was definitely tardier than GuF - as I pointed out in his comments.

Timpson Towers: Not Wet Paper Bag in the Road 2008

In addition to this they are governed by a council, and it follows that they are tardier in every decision than those which come from those who live in the same circle.

Discourses 2003

Going into his chamber, and there loosening and opening his coat of armor, “I am not,” said he, “troubled, Cleopatra, to be at present bereaved of you, for I shall soon be with you; but it distresses me that so great a general should be found of a tardier courage than a woman.”

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

How does the presence of few tameable animals in the New World help to account for its tardier development as compared with the Old World?

Early European History Hutton Webster

ARBITER: A mite tardier than lightning but still promptly stated.

NATURAE Dom

Having thus spoken, he smote the barbarian with his sword; but his fortune was tardier than his spirit; for the other smote him back, and he fell dead under the force of the first blow.

The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

I allowed the tardier coach-horses to set me down at the hotel.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various

His eyes are practically normal, and all his sensibilities (save for tardier response) about the same in hypnosis as in waking.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

I have previously mentioned how dependent the improvement of design and performance of aircraft has been upon the less simple and tardier development of the engine.

Aviation in Peace and War Frederick Hugh Sykes 1915

If the hearts of the ladies had surrendered at discretion, faith! we of the other sex were not much tardier.

A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 William MacLeod Raine 1912