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time-serving
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Timeserving
(gcide) | Timeserving \Time"serv`ing\, a.
Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the
humors of those in power.
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Timeserving
(gcide) | Timeserving \Time"serv`ing\, n.
An obsequious compliance with the spirit of the times, or the
humors of those in power, which implies a surrender of one's
independence, and sometimes of one's integrity.
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Syn: Temporizing.
Usage: Timeserving, Temporizing. Both these words are
applied to the conduct of one who adapts himself
servilely to times and seasons. A timeserver is rather
active, and a temporizer, passive. One whose policy is
timeserving comes forward to act upon principles or
opinions which may promote his advancement; one who is
temporizing yields to the current of public sentiment
or prejudice, and shrinks from a course of action
which might injure him with others. The former is
dishonest; the latter is weak; and both are
contemptible.
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Trimming and timeserving, which are but two
words for the same thing, . . . produce
confusion. --South.
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[I] pronounce thee . . . a hovering temporizer,
that
Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil,
Inclining to them both. --Shak.
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Timeserving
(gcide) | Timeserving \Time"serv`ing\, a.
Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the
humors of those in power.
[1913 Webster]Timeserving \Time"serv`ing\, n.
An obsequious compliance with the spirit of the times, or the
humors of those in power, which implies a surrender of one's
independence, and sometimes of one's integrity.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Temporizing.
Usage: Timeserving, Temporizing. Both these words are
applied to the conduct of one who adapts himself
servilely to times and seasons. A timeserver is rather
active, and a temporizer, passive. One whose policy is
timeserving comes forward to act upon principles or
opinions which may promote his advancement; one who is
temporizing yields to the current of public sentiment
or prejudice, and shrinks from a course of action
which might injure him with others. The former is
dishonest; the latter is weak; and both are
contemptible.
[1913 Webster]
Trimming and timeserving, which are but two
words for the same thing, . . . produce
confusion. --South.
[1913 Webster]
[I] pronounce thee . . . a hovering temporizer,
that
Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil,
Inclining to them both. --Shak.
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