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Meanings of cunctation in English

Portuguese
procrastinação

The act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time.

        procrastinação
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        Examples for "procrastination"
        Examples for "procrastination"
        1
        But this procrastination of actual hostilities was terminated in the following manner:-
        Rattlin the Reefer
        2
        For a while, I thought the root of the problem was procrastination.
        The Irish Times
        3
        Will this get us closer to our aim despite the Israeli procrastination?
        Reuters
        4
        In our business, there's no time for doubts, no time for procrastination.
        Occupied city
        5
        When do you stop reading articles on procrastination and actually stop procrastinating?
        The Irish Times
        1
        I've had enough of this shillyshally.
        The Mark of Cain
        2
        'Two not sound, five true as steel, and the rest shillyshally.
        Farina
        Usage of cunctation in English
        1
        Strive not to run, like Hercules, a furlong in a breath: festination may prove precipitation; deliberating delay may be wise cunctation, and slowness no slothfulness.
        Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for cunctation
        Cunctation through the time