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Webster 1828 Edition

ppr.

Urging forward; pushing on; proceeding rapidly.

That state is hastening to ruin, in which no difference is made between good and bad men.

hastening

hastening ‎(plural hastenings)

The act of speeding up; a growing faster.
- Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
  Miss D. had found that regular blinking, or a loud-ticking watch, or horizontal lines or marks on the ground, etc., similarly served to pace her, and to prevent the incontinent hastenings and retardations which otherwise marred her ambulation.
- 1991, Christopher Pollard, The Good CD guide, 1992
  The secret seems to be a very precise control of the subtle slackenings and hastenings of tempo that are essential to Scriabin's idiom […]