2. Verb. (third-person singular of delay) ¹
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Definition of Delays
1. delay [v] - See also: delay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Delays
Literary usage of Delays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life of George Washington by Washington Irving (1871)
"Inefficiency of the Militia System. — Gentlemen Soldiers. — Cross-purposes with
Dinwiddie. —Military Affairs in the North. — delays of Lord Loudoun. ..."
2. History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft (1868)
"But delays, as usual, intervened. The instruc- CHAP. tions to Clinton were not
... All joined " to lament the fatal delays/' What was to be done with the ..."
3. The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1867)
"243), to which we refer the reader. an article- Studied delays are equivalent to
an express denial, and §50. stu- dift'er from it only by the artifice with ..."
4. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"... failures and delays of the Federal Government, to promote their interests.
These suggestions of Navarro were well received at Court, and formed the ..."
5. The Parliamentary Debatesby Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1824)
"delays IN THE COURT OF CHAN- CI:K Y.] Mr. I Mike said, that all attempts made in
this House with a view to remedy the delays too well known to exist in the ..."
6. Diary and correspondence of samuel pepys f.r.s.. by Samuel Pepys (1854)
"... for now some delays are put to the getting gifts of the King, as Lady Byron,1
who had been, as he called it, the King's seventeenth mistress abroad, ..."
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