laten

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree English late English -en English laten From late + -en.

1. To grow late; become later.

   “The afternoon was latening, but there was, I think, a quietly commemorative glow from the west.”

   “Not even when the hour latened, when the courts became filled with boys returning from their holidays, when the moment for saying "Good-bye" was only a few minutes distant, not even then did his high spirits leave him.”