pausing

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of pause

noun

  1. A pause.
    And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day; […] three soundings at the three pausings of the music, […] c. 1650, John Lightfoot, The Temple-Service

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