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Dalliance   /dˈæliəns/   Listen
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Dalliance  n.  
1.
The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. "Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too much the rein." "O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strife!"
2.
Delay or procrastination.
3.
Entertaining discourse. (Obs.)





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"Dalliance" Quotes from Famous Books



... useless dalliance," said the great lady; "let us to work. By no other means can we root out for ever ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various
... fear. So march straight, or look for mischief. It's not bon ton, I know, and far from friendly. But what is friendship? convenience. But we lose time in this amiable dalliance. Come, now, an effort of deportment: the head thrown back, a jaunty carriage of the leg; crook gracefully the elbow. Thus. 'Tis better. (Calling.) House, ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV • Robert Louis Stevenson
... which he had retired with the declared purpose of leading a monastic life in future—and informed of his selection by the people as Czar of all the Russias. He modestly declined, of course; and, equally of course, his modesty only made the people the more clamorous. After some weeks of petty dalliance Boris finally allowed himself to be persuaded, and was crowned czar, in due form, ...
— Strange Stories from History for Young People • George Cary Eggleston
... no inquiry or explanation, no dalliance with emotion. His first words were a command, her inevitable response was to obey. Now, as always, she threw the whole responsibility upon him. And Emmet felt equal to the burden. He was like a god, knowing good and evil. He meant to do good in the main, but just now it was his pleasure to deviate ...
— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins
... William for a Polish to a Flemish campaign. That monarch and his generals left the Austrians to bear the brunt of everything on the banks of the Rhine, and also in Brabant. His manner of setting about the siege of Mainz was a masterpiece of politic delay, in which amorous dalliance played its part.[220] When complaints came from his Allies, he hotly retorted that Coburg had sent him only 5,000 troops from the northern army instead of the 15,000 that were promised. The Austrians replied with no less warmth that ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose


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