unhasting

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ hasting.

Adjective

unhasting (comparative more unhasting, superlative most unhasting)

1. Without haste.
   • 1901, Stewart Edward White, The Claim Jumpers‎^[1]:

     He enjoyed to the full his ability to swing gorgeous involved sentences, phrase after phrase, down the long arc of rhetoric, without a pause, without a quiver, until they rushed unhasting up the other slope to end in beautiful words, polysyllabic, but with just the right number of syllables.

   • 1911, Arnold Bennett, Hilda Lessways‎^[2]:

     A policeman with his arms hidden under his cloak marched unhasting downwards from the direction of the Bank.

Anagrams

• Nighantus, hauntings, nighantus