Hastening meaning

Here we see Christ standing forth in solitary grandeur, looking with the eyes of another world on a society which is blindly hastening to its dissolution.

"Oh no!" said Iogel, hastening to reassure him.

These troublous events had the effect of hastening the queen's marriage.

Hastening back to Italy he withdrew his three remaining legions from Aquileia, raised two more, and, crossing the Alps by forced marches, arrived in the neighbourhood of Lyons to find that three-fourths of the Helvetii had already crossed the Saone, marching westward.

Perhaps, indeed, it is rather a dogma hastening towards definition.