Associations to the word «Hasting»

Wiktionary

HASTE, noun. Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
HASTE, noun. (obsolete) Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
HASTE, verb. (transitive) To urge onward; to hasten.
HASTE, verb. (intransitive) To move with haste.

Dictionary definition

HASTE, noun. Overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste".
HASTE, noun. The act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner; "in his haste to leave he forgot his book".
HASTE, noun. A condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry; "in a hurry to lock the door".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats