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tardiness|ˈtɑːdɪnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being tardy. a. Slowness of movement or action.
1605Shakes. Lear i. i. 238 A tardinesse in nature, Which often leaues the history vnspoke That it intends to do. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 111 ⁋4 Something of the tardiness and frigidity of age. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xvi. (1817) 138 The tardiness of his pace seems to have reference to the capacity of his organs. 1863Kinglake Crimea II. 247 They..conformed with great care to the tardiness of our advance.
b. Delay in time; lateness.
1752Johnson Rambler No. 200 ⁋6 The tardiness of his return, gave me reason to suspect that time was taken to deliberate. 1781Cowper Retirement 475 He chides the tardiness of every post, Pants to be told of battles won or lost. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan II. 201 Hence the tardiness of our information.
c. Lateness in arriving, esp. at a meeting or assembly, a class or school, etc. U.S.
1828Webster, Tardiness,..lateness; as, the tardiness of witnesses or jurors in attendance; the tardiness of students in attending prayers or recitation. 1902J. Corbin American at Oxford 17 All this brings recollections of the paternal roof, where tardiness at breakfast meant the loss of dessert. 1930Randolph Enterprise (Elkins, W. Va.) 2 Oct. 5/4 No business enterprise would tolerate the percentage of absence and tardiness experienced in the schools. |