Definition of "lingering"

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

2000, David S. Reynolds, A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman, page 73

The lingerings of decent pride were visible in her appearance. Her dress, though humble in the extreme, was scrupulously clean.

1819 September 13, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Widow and Her Son”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number III, New York, N.Y.: […] C. S. Van Winkle, […], page 210

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.

1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853