Definition of "haste"

The king's business required haste.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1 Samuel 12:8

There was a stampede as the congressmen jumped the banister in their hastes to be the first to sign away their souls.

2017, Russell M. Peterson, The Armies of Forever, page 368

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Psalms 116:11

Baſſ. You may doe ſo, but let it be ſo haſted that ſupper be readie at the fartheſt by fiue of the clocke.

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene ii], page 168

The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes / To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire.

1594, “The Wounds of Civill War”, in A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition)‎

He hastes away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen.

1825, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes‎

Samson hastes not; but neither does he pause to rest.

1881, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present‎