"delayingly" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From delaying + -ly.",
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          "ref": "1864, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Enoch Arden:",
          "text": "And Annie could have wept for pity of him;\nAnd yet she held him on delayingly\nWith many a scarce-believable excuse,\nTrying his truth and his long-sufferance,\nTill half-another year had slipt away.",
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          "ref": "1885, William Dean Howells, chapter VII, in The Rise of Silas Lapham:",
          "text": "The mother glanced round at the bed, and said, glad to occupy herself delayingly with the minor care: “Why, you have been sitting up all night! You will kill yourself.”",
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          "ref": "2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:",
          "text": "He was unpacking too, though as coyly and delayingly as he had undressed that day at the Highgate Ponds.",
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        "So as to delay."
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          "text": "He was unpacking too, though as coyly and delayingly as he had undressed that day at the Highgate Ponds.",
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