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▪ I. pausing, vbl. n.|ˈpɔːzɪŋ|
[f. pause v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the verb pause; stopping, intermission, hesitation.
1530Palsgr. 252/2 Pausyng, interpos. 1582Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 80 After long pausing thus she sayd elflyke. 1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. (1651) 214 Such pausings are well reproved by Palladio. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) IV. xxi. 118 Thy tearful pausings shall not be helped out by me.
attrib.1807Crabbe Par. Reg. iii. 796 Thrice they sound, with pausing space.
▪ II. ˈpausing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That pauses: see the verb.
1719Tickell On Death Addison 16 The slow solemn knell..The pealing organ, and the pausing choir. 1844Browning Boy & Angel, With that weak voice of our disdain, Take up creation's pausing strain. 1885Ruskin Præterita I. iii. 97 Lawn and lake enough..I had, in the North Inch of Perth, and pools of pausing Tay.
Hence ˈpausingly adv., with pausing.
1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, i. ii. 168 With demure Confidence, This pausingly ensu'de. |