2. Noun. The act of speeding up; a growing faster. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hastening
1. hasten [v] - See also: hasten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hastening
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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