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▪ I. temporizing, vbl. n.|ˈtɛmpəraɪzɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb temporize.
1. Temporary compliance, etc.; time-serving, ‘trimming’; parleying: see temporize 1.
1590J. Smythe in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 64 By your Majesties bearinge and temporizinge with the woonderfull disorders and abuses. c1618Moryson Itin. (1903) 287 Our Ministers could not safely liue [in Ireland] without some temporising, and applying himselfe to thaire humours. 1707Norris Treat. Humility iii. 98 By temporizing or time-serving, I mean, when a man conforms his principles or practices to the times,..so as to be ready to take up new principles,..whenever a new turn of the times..shall make it for his advantage so to do. 1757Burke Abridgm. Eng. Hist. viii, John, deserted by all, had no resource but in temporizing and submission. 1816Scott Old Mort. xxxviii, This..is no time for temporising with our duty.
2. Putting off, delaying, procrastination; negotiation so as to gain time: see temporize 2, 3.
1586J. Hooker Hist. Irel. in Holinshed II. 113/2 By temporising and gaining of time all matters were pacified. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xlvii. 270 Without further temporising, he passed over the very same day to the other side of the river. 1685Gracian's Courtiers Orac. 49 A rational temporizing ripens secrets and resolutions.
▪ II. ˈtemporizing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That temporizes: see the verb.
1. Time-serving, ‘trimming’.
1600E. Blount Hosp. Incur. Fooles a ij, Another puts on the Foxe with temporizing humilitie. 1680C. Nesse Church Hist. 210 That temporizing parasitical priest. 1693Dryden Juvenal Ded. (1697) 65 A Temporizing Poet, a Well-manner'd Court-Slave, and a Man who is often afraid of Laughing in the right place. 1796Burke Regic. Peace i. Wks. VIII. 87 They..consider a temporizing meanness as the only source of safety. 1828J. W. Croker Diary 12 July, I thought a timid or temporising course would create great dissatisfaction.
2. Designed to gain time.
1800Misc. Tr. in Asiat. Ann. Reg. 140/1 My people became so clamorous that temporizing measures were no longer to be pursued. 1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xvi. 191 His treatment was purely expectant and temporising. 1903J. Gairdner in Camb. Mod. Hist. II. xiii. 447 Henry wrote a temporising reply.
Hence ˈtemporizingly adv., in a temporizing way, in a way designed to gain time.
1847in Webster. 1894Temple Bar Mag. CII. 136 He..talked temporizingly, with suggestions of possible arrangements. |