Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Linger. 2. (a.) Delaying. 3. (a.) Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease.

Multi-Version Concordance Lingering (2 Occurrences) Deuteronomy 28:59 then Yahweh will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. (See NIV) 2 Chronicles 21:15 And you yourself will undergo the cruel pains of a disease in your stomach, so that day by day your inside will be falling out because of the disease. (See NIV)