Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HURRY
HURRY, n.
- A driving or pressing forward in motion or business.
- Pressure; urgency to haste. We can not wait long; we are in a hurry.
- Precipitation that occasions disorder or confusion. It is necessary sometimes to be in haste, but never in a hurry. Anon.
- Tumult; bustle; commotion. Ambition raises a tumult in the soul, and puts it into a violent hurry of thought. Addison.
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