lingering

gerund of linger: an act of loitering or waiting.form-ofgerund

• But through this insistent rhythm and rhyme, there are only questions and parenthetical pauses, interruptions and lingerings.

That which lingers; a remnant.

• The lingerings of decent pride were visible in her appearance. Her dress, though humble in the extreme, was scrupulously clean.
• Whatever little lingerings may have now and then revived in my mind associated with my poor old face had only revived as belonging to a part of my life that was gone—gone like my infancy or my childhood.

present participle and gerund of lingerform-ofgerundparticiple