temporizer
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]temporizer (plural temporizers)
- A person who temporizes
- c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- I pronounce thee a hovering temporizer, that Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil, Inclining to them both.