Temporize vs Contemporize - What's the difference?
temporize | contemporize | Related terms |
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.
To bring up to date; often specifically to set a historical narrative in a modern context
* {{quote-book, 1948, Gordon Allport & Leo Postman, The Psychology of Rumor
, passage=In the few instances where the initial description is couched in the past tense, immediate reversal occurs and the scene is contemporized by the listener.}}
(marketing) To modify, repackage, or present a well-known or traditional product or brand in a way that appeals to contemporary consumers.
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Temporize is a related term of contemporize.
As verbs the difference between temporize and contemporize
is that temporize is 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 while contemporize is to bring up to date; often specifically to set a historical narrative in a modern context.temporize
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Verb
- They might their grievance inwardly complain, But outwardly they needs must temporize .
- (Francis Bacon)
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* temporizercontemporize
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Alternative forms
* contemporiseVerb
(contemporiz)citation
- Oscar Mayer tapped him to try to find some way to reposition bologna and other troubled meats that were declining in popularity and sales...when Drane began working on the project, his orders were to “figure out how to contemporize what we’ve got.”