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From GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, version 0.54:
Haste (hāst), n. [OE. hast; akin to D. haast, G., Dan., Sw., & OFries. hast, cf. OF. haste, F. hâte (of German origin); all perh. fr. the root of E. hate in a earlier sense of, to pursue. See {Hate}.]
1. Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.
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The king's business required haste.
-- 1 Sam. xxi. 8.
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2. The state of being urged or pressed by business; hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
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I said in my haste, All men are liars.
-- Ps. cxvi. 11.
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To make haste, to hasten.
Syn. -- Speed; quickness; nimbleness; swiftness; expedition; dispatch; hurry; precipitance; vehemence; precipitation. -- {Haste}, {Hurry}, {Speed}, {Dispatch}. Haste denotes quickness of action and a strong desire for getting on; hurry includes a confusion and want of collected thought not implied in haste; speed denotes the actual progress which is made; dispatch, the promptitude and rapidity with which things are done. A man may properly be in haste, but never in a hurry. Speed usually secures dispatch.
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From GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, version 0.54:
Haste, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Hasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hasting.] [OE. hasten; akin to G. hasten, D. haasten, Dan. haste, Sw. hasta, OF. haster, F. hâter. See {Haste}, n.] To hasten; to hurry. [Archaic]
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I 'll haste the writer.
-- Shak.
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They were troubled and hasted away.
-- Ps. xlviii. 5.
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