laten

present singular third person latens · participle present latening · participle past latened · past latened

1. intransitiveTo grow late; become later.

   The afternoon was latening, but there was, I think, a quietly commemorative glow from the west.

   1928, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, London: Faber and Faber, page 142 (Faber Paper 1972 edition)

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   Not even when the hour latened, when the courts became filled with boys returning from their holidays, when the moment for saying "Good-bye" was only a few minutes distant, not even then did his high spirits leave him.

   1930, Alec Waugh, Three Score and Ten, page 3

   Then he returned to Margaret's side and sat with her for the rest of the evening, insisting that she rest. As the hour latened he kissed her on the cheek and got up to leave.

   2011, Catherine Winchester, Northern Light