Verb (used without object) : to hasten to a place. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to hasten someone from a room; to hasten the arrival of a happier time. From Dictionary.com.
Self-preservation is impossible; self-assertion is a challenge to the assertiveness of other selves, as well as a hastener of dissolution. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
The United Kingdom was preparing to urge once more that a decision be reached at once when the South Africans forestalled this latest hastener by announcing their decision to us and to the United. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
"A third altar -- to Mercury the hastener!" exclaimed Sergius. From Wordnik.com. [The Lion's Brood] Reference
Oswald, in so professional a manner that he was instantly reinstated in public confidence; but when twenty minutes had passed, he looked perturbed, and thought he would use a little more of the hastener. From Wordnik.com. [About Peggy Saville] Reference
In the near future we hope it will mean to all workers even more than a discipline, a storehouse of culture, a provider of joy and of pleasure, of care in sickness, of support in adversity, and best of all, a preparation for and a hastener on of that coöperative commonwealth for which more and more of us ever watch and pray. From Wordnik.com. [The Trade Union Woman] Reference
The United Kingdom was preparing to urge once more that a decision be reached at once when the South Africans forestalled this latest hastener by announcing their decision to us and to the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand (that they were withdrawing their candidature). ". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
"I have come back sooner than I intended," returned Pedro, "for war is a wonderful hastener, as well as dictator, of events; but I have to thank war for having given me a new friend. From Wordnik.com. [The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America] Reference
Toiler for Temperance, hastener on of Light. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 23, 1892] Reference
Why isn't there a hastener anywhere in Atlantis?. From Wordnik.com. [WarCry Network : Latest News] Reference
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