unhurrying

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ hurrying

Adjective[edit]

unhurrying (comparative more unhurrying, superlative most unhurrying)

  1. Not hurrying.
    • 1903, Algernon Bastard, The Gourmet's Guide to Europe[1]:
      The two comfortable ladies who sit near the door at the desk, and the little show-table of the finest fruit seem to me never to have changed, and there is still the same quiet-footed, unhurrying service which impressed me when first I made the acquaintance of the restaurant.
    • 1917, Knut Hamsun, Growth of the Soil[2]:
      The story is epic in its magnitude, in its calm, steady progress and unhurrying rhythm, in its vast and intimate humanity.