tarriance
Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- noun The act or time of tarrying; delay; lateness.
Examples
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After having finished the service in Yorkshire, I have had a week's tarriance at Harrowgate.
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Picture-frames and copper succeed to tin-ware, argand lamps, and damaged crockery; china marks the next transition; and after no long tarriance in the "omnium gatherum" stage, the shop becomes a museum.
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He who was born in happy hour made no tarriance; he drew on his legs hose of fine cloth, and put on over them shoes which were richly worked.
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At last, after much long tarriance, the night drew near unto day and the dawn began to appear; whereupon the maid, who had been lessoned by the lady, coming down, opened the courtyard door and feigning to have compassion of Rinieri, said, 'Bad luck may he have who came hither yestereve!
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Mr. Thomas Dickson, at my entreaty, as well as in respectful reverence to your honour’s health, carried him through the room without tarriance, judging his own bed-chamber the fittest place for a young man recovering from a severe illness, and after a day of no small fatigue.”
Note
The word 'tarriance' comes from 'tarry' and the suffix '-ance'.