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单词 temporizer
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temporizern.

Brit. /ˈtɛmpərʌɪzə/, U.S. /ˈtɛmpəˌraɪzər/
Forms: Also 1500s -our, Scottish -ar, 1600s -or.
Etymology: Agent-noun < temporize v.: compare French temporiseur (a1600 in Littré).
One who temporizes.
1. One who complies for the time, or yields to the time; a time-server, a ‘trimmer’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > temporizing or trimming > temporizer or trimmer
Jack of both sides1554
mongrela1555
timeling1554
temporizer1555
time-taker1576
politique1581
time-server1583
time-pleaser1590
time observer1594
temporist1596
please-time1606
timist1614
timorist?1623
trimmer1682
Vicar of Bray1725
timer1842
1555 R. Pownoll tr. W. Musculus (title) The Temporisour (that is to say, the Observer of Tyme) translated into Inglishe.
1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 53 Werray finȝeit hypocritis, and temperizaris with the tyme contrare thair conscience.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2284/1 One by iudgement reformed, is more worth then a M. transformed temporizers.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 304 A mindlesse Slaue, Or else a houering Temporizer . View more context for this quotation
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 290 They would neuer be dissembling temporisors.
1710 J. Norris Treat. Christian Prudence ii. 101 The Policy of Temporizers, men that steer their course by the compass of Worldly Interests.
1812 P. B. Shelley Addr. in Prose Wks. (1888) I. 258 The dangers which lie beneath the footsteps of the hypocrite or temporizer.
2. One who seeks to gain time; a procrastinator, delayer; one who waits for a favourable time.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [noun] > one who delays
tarrier1382
delayer1509
postponer1533
prolonger1548
proroguer1551
deferrer1552
waiter upon God1592
procrastinator1607
temporizer1609
protracter1611
protractor1611
retarder1644
cunctator1654
adjourner1738
postponator1775
putter-off1803
tomorrower1810
offput1856
shelver1881
staller1937
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 370 Like unto that auncient and warie temporizer [Q. Fabius Maximus].
1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica xxix. 383 Doth Satan play the temporizer and time all his suggestions?
1736 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 469/1 The famous Advice..which ought to be observed by all Temporizers; viz. Time was; Time is: but take Care to lay hold on the Opportunity before the Time is past.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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