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delayingly

  • a word derived from delay.
    delay
    verb (used with object)
    to put off to a later time; defer; postpone.

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When he started to take off his coat, however, Kendall put up his hand delayingly and tapped a bell.

From The Financier, a novel by Theodore Dreiser