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Linger

/ˈlɪŋɡə/

Remaining in a place longer than necessary because one wants to delay departure.

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Goodbye Marner!' Godfrey lingered a moment by Silas's chair.

Victor asks in response to my lingering.

'Poor girl,' thought Nicholas, 'she little thinks who lingers here!'

Originating in the late Middle English period, from Old English lengan, influenced by Old Norse lengja, meaning to prolong.

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