Haste

/heɪst/ · noun

Meaning

Speed; swiftness; dispatch..

Definitions by Sense

1. Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
2. (obsolete) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
3. (transitive, archaic) To urge onward; to hasten.
4. (intransitive, archaic) To move with haste.

Example Sentences

We were running late so we finished our meal in haste.

The king's business required haste.

There was a stampede as the congressmen jumped the banister in their hastes to be the first to sign away their souls.

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Baſſ. You may doe ſo, but let it be ſo haſted that ſupper be readie at the fartheſt by fiue of the clocke.

The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes / To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire.

He hastes away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen.

Samson hastes not; but neither does he pause to rest.

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• hastes
• hasting
• hasted

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