haste
noun
swiftness of motion; speed; celerity.
hasting
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present participleof haste.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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On the morrow there was a great hasting of the Red Branch on the plain of the assemblies.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late Spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie
Your hasting away will leave me without food, and hunger will kill me.
From Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes by Walter Jekyll
Then the countryman brought whatever he could save, and the women and children their movable chattels, hasting to some distant place of concealment.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag
So Romulus when proud ambition, His former vertue and renowne had stayned: Did by the Senators receiue his end, But soft what boades Titinnius hasting speede.
From The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge by Anonymous
