dilatoriness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Nor when he got home was he much more inclined to any resolute line of action […] for he got no pen and paper, and he dawdled over his teacup with the utmost dilatoriness, putting off, as it were, the evil day."
"In some narratives of the origin of death, two messengers are despatched, and the cause of death is said to have been the dilatoriness or misconduct of the messenger who bore the glad tidings of immortality."

dilatorinesses (plural)

procrastination

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