gen. The action or fact of staying behind or lingering. Obsolete. rare.

The quality of being dilatory; tendency to procrastination or delay.

= tardity, n.; in quot. 1794 ‘slowness’ or unwillingness to do something.

Want of promptitude or quickness in action; unreadiness.

(a) n. the action of being reluctant or slow to act or make a decision; a delay or slowness; (b) adj. characterized by foot-dragging; cf. to drag one'…