Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being time-serving.
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Examples
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“A plan of amendment and regeneration in the moral and political state of society, on a comprehensive and systematic philanthropy which shall be sure though slow in its projects; and as it is without the rapidity and danger of revolution, so will it be devoid of the time-servingness of temporizing reform;” and quotes Lafayette:
Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer Sotheran, Charles, 1847-1902 1876
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"A plan of amendment and regeneration in the moral and political state of society, on a comprehensive and systematic philanthropy which shall be sure though slow in its projects; and as it is without the rapidity and danger of revolution, so will it be devoid of the time-servingness of temporizing reform;" and quotes Lafayette:
Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer Charles Sotheran 1874
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