Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of staying, waiting, or delaying; a stay; a delay.
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- verb Present participle of
tarry .
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Examples
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The idea of long "tarrying" is certainly implied here, since it is expressed in
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I loved the idea of tarrying at the feet of Jesus for an hour each morning, but whenever I tried to get up before my children, I ended up just like the disciples: asleep.
The Busy Mom’s Guide to Bible Study Lisa Whelchel 2007
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The result of his tarrying was his heart-breaking experience with the worse than murder of his daughter.
And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses J. Wilbur Chapman
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The more I meditated the better I liked the idea of tarrying in a spot where
Two Summers in Guyenne Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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The word has now lost the notion of tarrying, and is applied to a large and important dwelling-house. ~where~, in which: the antecedent is separated from the relative, a frequent construction in Milton (comp. lines 66, 821, etc.).
Milton's Comus John Milton 1641
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Indeed, it has not been a full generation since an identical practice, known as "tarrying," prevailed among the Anglo-Americans in some sections of this country, which allowed the courting couple to occupy the same bed as a test of their congeniality, before being tied up for life.
Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877
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Often, no doubt, his brethren thought him 'but an idler in the land,' but at last his 'tarrying' was vindicated.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI Alexander Maclaren 1868
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"tarrying" was too prevalent in colonial times to be ignored.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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"tarrying" with him, -- also laboring under the delusion that human life is under all circumstances to be preferred to vegetable existence, -- had the great poplar cut down.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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"tarrying" with him, -- also laboring under the delusion that human life is under all circumstances to be preferred to vegetable existence, -- had the great poplar cut down.
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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