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Answer for the clue "Delay leaving ", 5 letters:
tarry
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Word definitions for tarry in dictionaries
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tarry \Tar"ry\, v. t. To delay; to defer; to put off. [Obs.] Tarry us here no longer than to-morrow. --Chaucer. To wait for; to stay or stop for. [Archaic] He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. --Shak. He plodded on, . ...
Usage examples of tarry.
Sunne is in their Zinith every moneth, and doth tarry their so long before hee leaves it?
Whereupon I went to Fotis, to aske counsell of her as of some Divine, who although she was unwilling that I should depart one foot from her company, yet at length shee gave me license to bee absent for a while, saying , Beware that you tarry not long at supper there, for there is a rabblement of common Barrettors and disturbers of the publique peace, that rove about in the streets and murther all such as they may take, neither can law nor justice redress them in any case.
Mongols would not have tarried on Long Lake, nor camped amid the morasses of the muskeg ponds.
Let privily her council go their way: Why should I in this tale longer tarry?
So tarry not by a Sinckinge Schippe, but do as I saye lest all bee loste.
But in whichever place they were, and under whatever circumstances, they were all tarrying in expectation of the advent of the Messiah.
The Buddhists await the birth of Maitri Buddha, who is tarrying in the dewa loka Tusita until the time of his advent upon earth.
That is to say, he is tarrying in heaven for the appointed time to arrive when he shall come into the world again to consummate the full and final purposes of his mission.
The foregoing statement, therefore, implies that Christ and his angels would be tarrying on the earth when the final woe of the condemned was inflicted.
It also appears, in the next place, from numerous explicit passages, that the New Testament authors, in common with their countrymen, supposed the souls of the departed to be gathered and tarrying in what the Church calls the intermediate state, the obscure under world.
That is to say, all who have died, except Christ, are still tarrying in the great receptacle of souls under the earth.
After tarrying a season there, they were either born again upon the earth, or transported to the divine realm of the sun.
It burned bright in her soft, grave eyes, this longing for the larger freedom of the tarrying morrow.
Then would I that these fowles were away, Each with his mate, for longer tarrying here.
Saluting Pandarus, and not tarrying, his passage will give occasion for some talk of him, which may make his ears glow.