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動詞

laten (third-person singular simple present latens, present participle latening, simple past and past participle latened)

1. (intransitive) To grow late; become later.
   • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, London: Faber and Faber, page 142 (Faber Paper 1972 edition):

     The afternoon was latening, but there was, I think, a quietly commemorative glow from the west.

   • 1930, Alec Waugh, Three Score and Ten, page 3:

     Not even when the hour latened, when the courts became filled with boys returning from their holidays, when the moment for saying "Good-bye" was only a few minutes distant, not even then did his high spirits leave him.

   • 2011, Catherine Winchester, Northern Light:

     Then he returned to Margaret's side and sat with her for the rest of the evening, insisting that she rest. As the hour latened he kissed her on the cheek and got up to leave.

アナグラム

• Antle, ental, leant

固有名詞

laten

1. alternative form of Latyn

語源 2

名詞

laten

1. alternative form of latoun