Time deliberately or unavoidably placed between two events. A delay can be a fault or a mercy.
Old French delaier (to put off, defer), from de- (intensive) + laier (to leave, allow, related to laisser); time placed deliberately or unavoidably between two events, which can be either a fault or a mercy depending on who needed the gap.
Time deliberately or unavoidably placed between two events. Whether it reads as a fault or a mercy depends entirely on who needed the gap.