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n. The act of protracting.

n. The state of being protracted.

n. Linguistics The irregular lengthening of a normally short syllable.

n. The condition of being protracted

n. The act of protracting

n. The lengthening of a short syllable

n. An anterior movement on the horizontal plane; The forward movement of the tongue or of a limb

n. The act of making a plot on paper.

n. A drawing out, or continuing; the act of delaying the termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay.

n.

n. The act or process of making a plot on paper.

n. A plot on paper.

n. The act of drawing out or prolonging; the act of delaying: as, the protraction of a debate.

n. In surveying: The act of plotting or laying down on paper the dimensions of a field, etc.

n. That which is protracted or plotted on paper.

n. The action of a protractor in sense .

n. In ancient prosody, the treatment as metrically long of a syllable usually measured as a short: opposed to correption.

n. the act of prolonging something

n. the consequence of being lengthened in duration

"By the quantity of provision which I had consumed I should guess that I had passed three weeks in this journey; and the continual protraction of hope, returning back upon the heart, often wrung bitter drops of despondency and grief from my eyes."

continuance    continuation   

prolongation    continuance    delay   

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