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- noun Plural form of
temporizer .
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Examples
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His drift from hawkishness into full-on neoconservatism, for example, clearly has a strong personal dimension: Lieberman views himself as the one man who sees the truth on national security in a party of cautious temporizers.
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Hard-line Republicans, led by Sumner, denounced Seward and Adams as temporizers; at the same time, Sumner was given to nervous tale-bearing.
America's First Dynasty Richard Brookhiser 2002
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Janice Day was determined not to listen to these temporizers in
How Janice Day Won Helen Beecher Long
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Church and threw the temporizers of the East into disorder.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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They were in favor of a gradual reduction of the bills, and if in the schemes of the temporizers, due consideration had been made for the protection of the debtor class, the perilous position would have been accepted of dallying with the situation.
Currency and Banking in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay [excerpts] 1901
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Though the temporizers came over to the secessionists, and with them came Stephens, there was still a minority of 89 irreconcilables against the majority numbering 208.
The Day of the Confederacy; a chronicle of the embattled South 1901
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It would have been impossible for a man of Caraffa's stamp to achieve what these sagacious temporizers and adroit managers effected.
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866
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Do you hear it, oh! ye temporizers with Divine law?
Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 Catherine Mumford Booth 1859
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Do you hear it, oh! ye temporizers with Divine law?
Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 Catherine Mumford Booth 1859
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Do you hear it, oh! ye temporizers with Divine law?
Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 Catherine Mumford Booth 1859
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