Meanings
comparative more unhasting · superlative most unhasting
- Without haste.
A policeman with his arms hidden under his cloak marched unhasting downwards from the direction of the Bank.
1911, Arnold Bennett, Hilda Lessways1 more example
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.
1901, Stewart Edward White, The Claim Jumpers
Origin
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