Definition of Hastening

1. Verb. (present participle of hasten) ¹

2. Noun. The act of speeding up; a growing faster. ¹

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Definition of Hastening

1. hasten [v] - See also: hasten

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hastening

hastate
hastate leaf
hastated
hastately
haste
haste makes waste
hasted
hasteful
hastely
hasten
hastened
hastener
hasteners
hastenest
hasteneth
hastening
hastenings
hastens
hastes
hastier
hastiest
hastile
hastily
hastiness
hastinesses
hasting
hastings
hastingsite
hastite

Literary usage of Hastening

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1906)
"The hastening of this revolution by the application of the Factory Acts to those Industries. The cheapening of labour-power, by sheer abuse of the labour of ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... procession was melon the road by his wife Charito, the daughter of Count Lucil- lian, who still wept the recent death of her father, and was hastening ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1873)
"Hastening of delivery in case of prolapsed funis. 8th. Earlier interference and delivery in cases of accidental hemorrhage, or convulsions. RPH ART. XXII. ..."

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