Crossword clues for cunctation
cunctation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cunctation \Cunc*ta"tion\ (k?nk-t?"sh?n), n. [L. cunctatio, fr.
cunctari, p. p. cunctatus, to delay.]
Delay; procrastination. [R.]
--Carlyle.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) delay, hesitation, procrastination.
WordNet
n. the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time [syn: procrastination, shillyshally]
Usage examples of "cunctation".
But then in equally paradoxical contrast have a look at the next Advanced Basics speaker this tall baggy sack of a man, also painfully new, but this poor bastard here completely and openly nerve-racked, wobbling his way up to the front, his face shiny with sweat and his talk full of blank cunctations and disassociated leaps as the guy speaks with terrible abashed chagrin about trying to hang on to his job Out There as his A.