timeservingness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From time-serving + -ness.
Noun
[edit]timeservingness (uncountable)
- The quality of being time-serving.
- 1855, The Ecclesiastic, page 346:
- Subtlety may indeed effect a victory at the deadening cost of a sin, but timeservingness can only get transitory advantage, while the damage of its untruthfulness leaves its corroding taint behind for ever.