  We study the asymptotic behavior of the solutions of the time-delayed
higher-order dispersive nonlinear differential equation \begin{equation*}
u_t(x,t)+Au(x,t) +\lambda_0(x) u(x,t)+\lambda(x) u(x,t-\tau )=0 \end{equation*}
where \begin{equation*} Au=(-1)^{j+1}\partial_x^{2j+1}u+(-1)^m\partial_x^{2m}u+
\frac{1}{p+1}\partial_xu^{p+1} \end{equation*} with $m\le j$ and $1\le p<2j$.
Under suitable assumptions on the time delay coefficients, we prove that the
system is exponentially stable if the coefficient of the delay term is bounded
from below by a suitable positive constant, without any assumption on the sign
of the coefficient of the undelayed feedback. Additionally, in the absence of
delay, general results of stabilization are established in $H^s(\mathbb{R})$
for $s\in[0,2j+1]$. Our results generalize several previous theorems for the
Korteweg-de Vries type delayed systems in the literature.
