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make haste

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make haste (third-person singular simple present makes haste, present participle making haste, simple past and past participle made haste)

(intransitive, dated) To hurry or hasten.

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Enduring much pain in his last days, he finally "yielded up his soul without any effort, like a candle going out" while reciting the psalm Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina (O Lord, make haste to help me). Source: Internet

First tale (III, 1) Masetto da Lamporecchio feigns to be mute, and obtains a gardener's place at a convent of women, who with one accord make haste to lie with him. Source: Internet

On ordering his army to join the battle and rescue their fellow Romans, Fabius exclaimed "We must make haste to rescue Minucius, who is a valiant man, and a lover of his country." Source: Internet

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