Eschew vs Temporize - What's the difference?
eschew | temporize |
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.
* Daniel
(obsolete) To delay; to procrastinate.
(obsolete) To comply; to agree.
As verbs the difference between eschew and temporize
is that eschew is (formal) to avoid; to shun, to shy away from while 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.eschew
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Usage notes
* The verb is not normally applied to the avoidance or shunning of a person or physical object, but rather, only to the avoidance or shunning of an idea, concept, or other intangible.Quotations
{{timeline , 1500s=1599 , 1900s=1927 , 2010s=2014}} * *: What cannot be eschew’d must be embrac’d. * 1927 , *: He could afford no servants, and would admit but few visitors to his absolute solitude; eschewing close friendships and receiving his rare acquaintances in one of the three ground-floor rooms which he kept in order. * '>citationDerived terms
* (l)References
temporize
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Verb
- They might their grievance inwardly complain, But outwardly they needs must temporize .
- (Francis Bacon)
- (Shakespeare)