Word Meanings - MORATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A delaying tarrying; delay. Sir T. Browne.

Related words: (words related to MORATION)

• TARRY
  Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.
• DELAY
  A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. Acts xxv. 17. The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day. Macaulay. (more
• DELAYER
  One who delays; one who lingers.
• DELAYINGLY
  By delays. Tennyson.
• DELAYMENT
  Hindrance. Gower.
• STARRY
  1. Abounding with stars; adorned with stars. "Above the starry sky." Pope. 2. Consisting of, or proceeding from, the stars; stellar; stellary; as, starry light; starry flame. Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and
• ROUNDELAY
  See ROUNDEL