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Temporizer   Listen
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Temporizer  n.  One who temporizes; one who yields to the time, or complies with the prevailing opinions, fashions, or occasions; a trimmer. "A sort of temporizers, ready to embrace and maintain all that is, or shall be, proposed, in hope of preferment."





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... mechanics, Manhattanese, Western men, Southerners, significant alike in their apathy, and in the promptness of their love? Does it see what finally befalls, and has always finally befallen, each temporizer, patcher, outsider, partialist, alarmist, infidel, who has ever ask'd any thing of America? What mocking and scornful negligence? The track strew'd with the dust of skeletons, By the roadside others ...
— Leaves of Grass • Walt Whitman


Words linked to "Temporizer" :   delayer, temporize, temporiser


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