temporization

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English

Etymology

Compare French temporisation.

Noun

temporization (countable and uncountable, plural temporizations)

  1. The act of temporizing.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
  2. (dentistry) The application of a temporary piece of dental work that will later be removed.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for temporization”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)