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Tarriance   Listen
noun
Tarriance  n.  The act or time of tarrying; delay; lateness. (Archaic) "And after two days' tarriance there, returned."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Tarriance" Quotes from Famous Books



... myself I am not very quick, Because that my body I do so much tender; For Sensual Suggestion will quickly be sick, If that his own ease he should not remember. Thus one cause of my tarriance to you I do render: Another I had as I came by the way, Which did me the longer from ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VI • Robert Dodsley

... bathed in blood, and joyed to slay, And laughed at pain and suffering. Then Kintu sadly went his way. The gods long-suffering are and kind, Often they pardon, long they wait; But men are evil, men are blind. After much tarriance, much debate, The good gods leave them to their fate; So Kintu went where none ...
— Verses • Susan Coolidge



Words linked to "Tarriance" :   tarry, delay, lingering, holdup



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