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Webster 1913 Edition
Cunctation
Cunc-ta′tion
(k?nk-t?′sh?n)
, Noun.
[L.
cunctatio
, fr. cunctari
, p. p. cunctatus
, to delay.] Delay; procrastination.
[R.]
Carlyle.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cunctation
CUNCTATION
,Noun.
Definition 2024
cunctation
cunctation
English
Noun
cunctation (countable and uncountable, plural cunctations)
- (obsolete) Delay, hesitation, procrastination.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio Society 2007, p. 428:
- celerity should always be contempered with cunctation.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio Society 2007, p. 428:
Translations
delay, hesitation, procrastination