retardation
noun
the act of retarding or state of being retarded.
retardatory
-
a word derived from
retardation.
Example Sentences
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In March, 1871, Paris had proclaimed that henceforward it would not wait for the retardatory portions of France: that it intended to start within its Commune its own social development.
From The Conquest of Bread by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince
