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Synonyms for temporize

Grammar : Verb
Spell : tem-puh-rahyz
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɛm pəˌraɪz

Définition of temporize

Origin :
  • 1550s (implied in temporizer), from Middle French temporiser "to pass one's time, wait one's time" (14c.), from Medieval Latin temporizare "pass time," perhaps via Vulgar Latin *temporare "to delay," from Latin tempus (genitive temporis) "time" (see temporal). Related: Temporized; temporizing.
  • verb gain or make time
Example sentences :
  • She was anxious to temporize, for she did not see how to answer her appeal.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • They might temporize with their own consciences, but not with public opinion.
  • Extract from : « Mary Wollstonecraft » by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
  • It is hard to temporize when confronted with a businesslike silence.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 19th, 1914 » by Various
  • She tried to temporize, but the more she eluded him the more insistent he became.
  • Extract from : « The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley » by Louis Tracy
  • Thus Blake tried to temporize, so that he might think what was best to do.
  • Extract from : « The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast » by Victor Appleton
  • In the case that thus was presented there was no opportunity to temporize.
  • Extract from : « The Aztec Treasure-House » by Thomas Allibone Janvier
  • A sense of the shock she might give him moved her to temporize.
  • Extract from : « The Readjustment » by Will Irwin
  • From stark necessity, she put her whole reliance on an effort to temporize.
  • Extract from : « Heart of the Blue Ridge » by Waldron Baily
  • Did they temporize with a henious evil, because it was common and popular?
  • Extract from : « Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments » by Various
  • The Spaniards had taken Courtrai, and it was well to temporize.
  • Extract from : « The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 » by Various

Antonyms for temporize

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