Temporize - What does it mean?
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To deliberately act evasively or prolong a discussion in order to gain time or postpone a decision, sometimes in order to reach a compromise or simply to make a conversation more temperate.
(obsolete) To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties.
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(obsolete) To delay; to procrastinate.
(obsolete) To comply; to agree.
temporize
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Verb
- They might their grievance inwardly complain, But outwardly they needs must temporize .
- (Francis Bacon)
- (Shakespeare)