Definition of Hastes

1. Verb. (third-person singular of haste) ¹

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Definition of Hastes

1. haste [v] - See also: haste

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hastes

hastately
haste
haste makes waste
hasted
hasteful
hastely
hasten
hastened
hastener
hasteners
hastenest
hasteneth
hastening
hastenings
hastens
hastes (current term)
hastier
hastiest
hastile
hastily
hastiness
hastinesses
hasting
hastings
hastingsite
hastite
hastive
hasty
hasty-pudding

Literary usage of Hastes

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

1. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"As when some shaft, With Parthian poison tipped or Cretan gall, A barb of death, shoots cloud ward from the bow, And hissing through the dark hastes forth ..."

2. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"But Cassar seeing lower, hastes answer Flavius, His father ; Yet bears Titus certain scroll, Aye, in his bosom, of that blind Homerus ; Wherein he studies ..."

3. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers (1847)
"He knows who loves whom ; and who by poison hastes to an office's reversion. lie knows who hath sold his land, and now doth beg Shells to transport. ..."

4. The Plays of Aeschylus by Aeschylus, Robert Potter (1886)
"... From the rich fragrance of her gorgeous bowers, Descending to the main, She hastes to spread her flying sails, And calls the earth-born zephyr's gales. ..."

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