English

Adverb

delayingly ‎(comparative more delayingly, superlative most delayingly)

1. So as to delay.
   • 1864, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Enoch Arden,”

     And Annie could have wept for pity of him;

     And yet she held him on delayingly

     With many a scarce-believable excuse,

     Trying his truth and his long-sufferance,

     Till half-another year had slipt away.

   • 1885, William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham, Chapter VII,

     The mother glanced round at the bed, and said, glad to occupy herself delayingly with the minor care: “Why, you have been sitting up all night! You will kill yourself.”

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 11 (i),

     He was unpacking too, though as coyly and delayingly as he had undressed that day at the Highgate Ponds.