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▪ I. tarrying, vbl. n.|ˈtærɪɪŋ|
[f. tarry v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb tarry, q.v.; delaying, delay, waiting, loitering, etc.
1340–70Alex. & Dind. 818 Wiþ-oute tariynge tid þis tiþingus come. c1350in Eng. Gilds (1870) 357 Þey sholde, at here aȝe-comynge, ȝelde trewe a-counte..by-þowte taryȝynge. c1440Promp. Parv. 489/2 Teryynge, or longe a-bydynge, mora, pigricia. a1450Myrc Festial 18 This þe taryng of Thomas byleue broght vs yn full byleue. 1535Coverdale Ps. xxxix. 17 Make no longe tarienge, o my God. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. x. (S.T.S.) 395 Tha wald tyne waichtie materis,..throuch thair Absense, or lang tarieng. 1865W. G. Palgrave Arabia I. 86 We determined to march on without further tarrying.
2. Abiding, sojourning: see tarry v. 4 b.
1445in Anglia XXVIII. 271 In the she had a restyng place or tarying ony while. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 826/2 If he of his noble courage would giue him tarieng and abode. 1607R. Johnson Pleas. Conceites Old Hobson (Percy Soc.) 14 During the time of his taring there.
†3. (See quots., and cf. bundle v. 5.) U.S.
1775A. Burnaby Trav. 83 A very extraordinary method of courtship, which is sometimes practised amongst the lower people of this province, and is called Tarrying. 1778T. Anburey Trav. Amer. xlix. (1791) II. 87 That custom [bundling]..is in some measure abolished; but they still retain one something similar, which is termed tarrying.
▪ II. ˈtarrying, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That tarries: a. Delaying, lingering, tardy; b. Remaining, abiding.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋644 The synne that men clepen Tarditas, as whan a man is to laterede or tariynge er he wole turne to god. 1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 223 Tarynge of speche, the voyce ful and stronge. 1483Cath. Angl. 378/1 Taryinge, morosus (A.). 1654Z. Coke Logick 38 Action is either Immanent and tarrying [or] Transient and passing.
Hence ˈtarryingly adv., lingeringly, tardily.
1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 26 The systers fulfyll the offyce of theyr seruyce somwhat more tareyngly. |