linger
verb (used without object)
to remain or stay on in a place longer than is usual or expected, as if from reluctance to leave.
unlingering
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a word derived from
linger.
Example Sentences
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That smile, he recognized, pensive and unlingering, served a wide and practical variety of purposes.
From Cytherea by Joseph Hergesheimer
I was the slave of a woman, who had never seen me in my proper person until then, and who seeing me at last had turned carelessly away, after one swift unlingering regard.
From First Person Paramount by Ambrose Pratt
Nor prayer, nor tear, Lets his arraignment; but we disappear, What time the gold turns gray, Into the sheer, Blind gulfs unglutted of mere Yesterday, With the unlingering May— The good, fulfilling, irresponsible May!
From Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses by William Ernest Henley
But the difference is that the Roman by the word "sudden" means unlingering, whereas the Christian Litany by "sudden death" means a death without warning, consequently without any available summons to religious preparation.
From The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc by Thomas De Quincey
