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adjective

Tardy adj. (compar. tardier; superl. tardiest)

Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift. "And check the tardy flight of time." "Tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave."

Not being inseason; late; dilatory; opposed to prompt; as, to be tardy in one's payments. "The tardy plants in our cold orchards placed."

Unwary; unready. (Obs.)

Criminal; guilty. (Obs.)

Synonyms: Slow; dilatory; tedious; reluctant. See Slow.

verb

Tardy v. t. To make tardy. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Tardy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... mountain scenery so much engaged us, that we were very tardy in observing the embarrassment felt by our kind entertainers the monks. They had but a slender provision of wine and wheaten bread; and although in those high regions both are considered as belonging merely to the luxuries of the table, yet we saw with regret, that our hosts abstained from them ...

— Equinoctial Regions of America • Alexander von Humboldt

... establishment were expected to arrive at the fixed hour in the morning, which hour varied according to the season of the year; if they came too late, they were gently reprimanded; and if they persisted in being tardy, without being able to give a sufficient excuse for not coming sooner, they were punished by being deprived of their dinner, which otherwise they received every ...

— ESSAYS, Political, Economical and Philosophical. Volume 1. • Benjamin Rumford

... What Australia owes to British sea power. Influence of the Napoleonic wars. Fresh points relative to Napoleon's designs. Absence of evidence. Consequences of suspicions of French intentions. Promotion of settlement in Tasmania. Tardy occupation of Port Phillip. The Swan River Settlement. The Westernport scheme. Lord John Russell's claim of "the Whole" of Australia for the British. The designs of Napoleon III. Australia the ...

— Terre Napoleon - A history of French explorations and projects in Australia • Ernest Scott

... the quarters of the globe) should enjoy at length, in the evening of her days, those blessings, which had descended so plentifully upon us in a much earlier period of the world. Then also would Europe, participating in her improvement and prosperity, receive an ample recompense for the tardy kindness (if kindness it could be called) of no longer hindering her from extricating herself out of the darkness, which, in other more fortunate regions, had been so much ...

— The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the - Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) • Thomas Clarkson

... Isabel exposed to every peril and terror! Why had he refused to join them? The answer was maddening. He hated himself, as he found his love for his cousin melting under the influence of jealousy, and of indignation that his own vehement passion must be sacrificed to the tardy, uncertain love which seemed almost an ...

— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I) - or, The Clue of Life • Charlotte M. Yonge

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