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laggard, a. and n.|ˈlægəd|
Also 9 laggart.
[f. lag v.1 + -ard.]
A. adj. Lagging, hanging back, loitering, slow. Chiefly of living things, their actions, and attributes. Occas. of days, time, etc.
1702Rowe Tamerlane iv. i, Tho' Laggard in the Race..I will pursue the shining Path thou tread'st. 1706[Ward] Wooden World Diss. (1708) 31 [The press-gang lieutenant] beats up all Quarters..and drives the laggard Dog along the Streets, with as much noise and Bustle as Butchers do Swine to Smithfield. 1713J. Hughes Ode to Creator World 4 Decrepit Winter, laggard in the Dance..A heavy Season does maintain. 1747Collins Passions 112 Than all which charms this laggard age. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles iv. xviii, And Lennox cheer'd the laggard hounds. 1842Manning Serm. xvi. (1848) I. 235 Ours is a..laggard obedience at the best. 1871Palgrave Lyr. Poems 91 My heart outruns these laggart limbs. 1889Jessopp Coming of Friars iv. 183 The Angel of Death moves at no laggard pace.
B. n. One who lags behind; a lingerer, loiterer.
1808Scott Marm. v. xii, A laggard in love, and a dastard in war. 1836W. Irving Astoria I. 89 He meant to let the laggards off for a long pull and a hearty fright. 1860Rawlinson Herodotus IV. ix. lxxvii. 449 They declared themselves to deserve a fine, as laggarts. 1876Tait Rec. Adv. Phys. Sci. x. (ed. 2) 259 Formed of the laggards, as it were, which have been thrown out of the race.
Hence ˈlaggard v., to play the laggard. Also ˈlaggardism, ˈlaggardly adv., ˈlaggardness.
1835Pusey Let. to Newman in Liddon, etc. Life Pusey (1893) II. i. 8 [It] hardly seems to come heartily, because it has not come before, but comes laggardly. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xv. viii. (1872) VI. 40 Austrians mainly are gone laggarding with D'Ahremberg up the Rhine. 1865Sat. Rev. XIX. 756/1 The insolent contempt of labour on the one hand, and the petty aping of laggardism and polite inanity on the other. 1869Goulburn Purs. Holiness i. 10 That laggardness of will. |