Shakespeare, 1 Henry IV. act i. sc. 8.
There is a double people-pleasing. One sordid and servile, made of falsehood and flattery, which I defy and detest.—Fuller, Appeal of Injured Innocence, p. 38.
Now although I instanced in a question which by good fortune never came to open defiance, yet there have been sects formed upon lighter grounds.—Bishop Taylor, Liberty of Prophesying, § 3, 5.
Delay. Like the French ‘délayer,’ used often in old time where we should now employ ‘allay.’ Out of an ignorance of this, and assuming it a misprint, some modern editors of our earlier authors have not scrupled to change ‘delay’ into ‘allay.’ This is quite a different word from delay, to put off.
Wine delayed with water.—Holland’s Camden, p. 20.
The watery showers delay the raging wind.
Earl of Surrey, The Faithful Lover, p. 34 (ed. 1717).
Even so fathers ought to delay their eager reprehensions and cutting rebukes with kindness and clemency.—Holland, Plutarch’s Morals, p. 16.
Cup-bearers know well enough, and in that regard can discern and distinguish, when they are to use more or less water to the delaying of wines.—Id., Ib. p. 652.
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