lingering

plural lingerings

1. gerundgerund of linger: an act of loitering or waiting.

   But through this insistent rhythm and rhyme, there are only questions and parenthetical pauses, interruptions and lingerings.

   2000, David S. Reynolds, A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman, page 73

2. That which lingers; a remnant.

   The lingerings of decent pride were visible in her appearance. Her dress, though humble in the extreme, was scrupulously clean.

   1819 September 13, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Widow and Her Son”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number III, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 210

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   Whatever little lingerings may have now and then revived in my mind associated with my poor old face had only revived as belonging to a part of my life that was gone—gone like my infancy or my childhood.

   1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of linger