Haste with which

The haste with which she climbed the stairs. Necessity for hurrying; urgency. An air of haste marks the undertaking.

Speed; swiftness; dispatch. We were running late so we finished our meal in haste. To urge onward; to hasten. To hasten or cause to hasten. The act of hurrying; quickness of motion; rapidity. The act of hurrying carelessly or recklessly. Idioms and Phrasal Verbs make haste. Definition of haste Entry 1 of 2. Definition of haste Entry 2 of 2. Choose the Right Synonym for haste Noun haste , hurry , speed , expedition , dispatch mean quickness in movement or action.

Examples of haste in a Sentence Noun The application had been approved with undue haste. Recent Examples on the Web: Noun One problem with legislating in haste , though, is that the authors may be left to repent at leisure. First Known Use of haste Noun 14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1 Verb 14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense.

Learn More About haste. Time Traveler for haste The first known use of haste was in the 14th century See more words from the same century. Phrases Related to haste haste makes waste make haste. Style: MLA.

More Definitions for haste. English Language Learners Definition of haste. Mamun, on his side, sent in all haste an army of less than men of his faithful Khorasanians, and entrusted their command to Tahir b.

Mamun was in no haste to remove to Bagdad, but continued to reside at Merv. The caravan which left Bagdad towards the end of this year returned in all haste before it had covered a third of the way. Krauss, Stein, Berrer and Scotti were very quick in their pursuit, and Berrer paid for his haste with his life. At the head of such light troops as he could collect, he marched in haste along the Watling Street, leaving orders for the legions to follow. His aim was to lessen the influence which the prestige of Priestley's name gave to his views, by indicating inaccuracies in his scholarship and undue haste in his conclusions.

Imperfect digestion is very often caused by defective teeth or by undue haste in eating, so that the food is bolted instead of being sufficiently masticated and insalivated. The pope, travelling by way of Florence and discussing there the great new scheme of the Laurentian library, entertained the idea of giving the commission to Leonardo; but Michelangelo came in hot haste from Rome and succeeded in securing it for himself.

His wife, the beautiful daughter of the earl of Kildare, was left behind in the haste of Tyrconnel's flight, and lived to marry Nicholas Barnewell, Lord Kingsland. But when in Russia, attacked by Napoleon, had in great haste to conclude at Bucharest a treaty of peace with Turkey, and omitted to make sufficient provision for the security of her allies the Serbs, the Turkish army invaded and reconquered Servia, occupying all its fortresses.

He seized everything, alleging different rights in each place; but he displayed such violent haste and such trickery that he threw the heiress of Burgundy, in despair, into the arms of Maximilian of Austria. Malatesta could afford to laugh at this farce, but he nevertheless prepared in haste for a desperate defence Caleb began to hurry, and in her haste to keep up with the halo in front of him, she stumbled, falling to her knees and rolling to her side in the wet mud.

His beds vary: elegant or spartan, thickly encrusted with paint, or executed in what seems to have been a fiery haste. Here was a youth making haste to give hostages to fortune. When he had found a place which had grouse on the menu he repaired there post haste with a chum in a Ferrari. Andrews took his watch from his pocket and, noting the time, announced that they should return post haste to the hospital. You must spend time reading the wine list before you choose as there are many wines to miss and you may regret haste.

So leaving the fallen, he urges haste to make for the fortress of Helm's Deep and safety. The note is short and written on a torn piece of paper suggesting haste and little or no planning. With indecent haste , we were introduced to The Style Council. With me want of prayer always leads to undue haste. The road was rugged, but still we seemed to fly over it with a feverish haste. Whilst in the water a mounted policeman was seen proceeding in hot haste over Bow Bridge toward Sheffield.

Whenever there is great haste demanded or advised, be wary. Needless to say, I threw the gadget in the garbage, post haste. In fact, on the early records, he worked with almost indecent haste by today's standards. But despite the almost unseemly haste with which the U. Baratieri, after a futile attempt to direct the retreat, fled in haste and reached Adi-Caj before the debris of his army.

But they have also most obvious defects: they are unquestionably the books of an old man who had thought much as well as spoken and written often on the themes he discusses, yet who had finally put his material together in haste at a time when his mind had lost, if not its dialectic vigour, yet its freshness and its sense of proportion; and who had been so accustomed to amplify the single stages of his argument that he had forgotten how much they needed to be reduced to scale and to be built into an organic whole.

In all the states but three had bicameral legislatures-it was therefore natural that the new national government should follow this example, not to add that the division into two branches seems calculated to reduce the chances of reckless haste , and to increase the chances of finding wisdom in a multitude of counsellors. The little creatures are seen rushingn frantic haste from the hive like a living g stream, filling the air with ever-increasing thousands of bees on the wing.

Near Hetzelsdorf Prince Andrew struck the high road along which the Russian army was moving with great haste and in the greatest disorder. With a sinking heart he watched Dolokhov's hands and thought, "Now then, make haste and let me have this card and I'll take my cap and drive home to supper with Denisov, Natasha, and Sonya, and will certainly never touch a card again. The court gave the argument short shrift, leaving the tenant to repent at leisure his having acted in haste.

The assistant manager's haste in making the transfers served as an alert to bank security, who then caught her making further transfers with surveillance cameras. When a gift giver takes the time to choose a gift instead of purchasing one in haste , it truly touches the heart. A thoughtful gift shows your love and good wishes to the future bride and groom much better than one that was grabbed off the rack in a moment of haste.

Don't pick out something in haste though; you want the gift to be as personal as possible. For instance, Sir Galahad has a healing spell, a Holy attack and Haste. No matter what you do, do not select a tummy control swimsuit in haste. People can usually tell which gifts were purchased in haste.

Relishing a challenge, their emotions are easily aroused, and they need to be careful when acting in haste because that legendary temper is sure to flare! In the haste to help America lose weight, sometimes diet solutions are rushed to market without an understanding of the long-term effects of taking those supplements.

Only when the hawk is brought down by a hunter's arrow and they are forced to make haste to seek the help of a strange reclusive monk, played by Leo McKern, does the little thief begin to piece together their story. She leapt up, knocking the prisoner off balance in her haste to escape. Again she lobbed a snowball at him, but in her haste she missed him by a wide margin.

It shoved Rissa's horse off the trail in its haste , where a branch knocked her to the ground.