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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
temporise .
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Examples
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Another, smitten by the fair Shehrazade's bulky charms, had proposed matrimony, and offered as dowry a milch camel: she "temporised," not daring to return a positive refusal, and the suitor betrayed a certain
First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Thus the latter temporised & the political middle ground always moved their way.
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Great Britain, it seemed, in an access of meanness, temporised and wrangled with the imperial spirited Butteridge and his extraordinary invention.
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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Should he confess? — give his savings to the woman to whom he was bound, and beg his release? — there was time yet — he temporised.
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Barnes, the arch-traitor, temporised and told him falsehoods, and hesitated about throwing him off until the Marquis had declared himself?
The Newcomes 2006
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Bush temporised: I think the most important statement that you heard, and I heard, was the President's statement, when he declared his absolute support for democracy in Russia, and they're not turning back.
Key word: democracy Richard 2005
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We have been mealy-mouthed and weak-handed; we have trifled and temporised and the Food has grown and grown.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004
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'Not so much that it is refused,' Usamah temporised.
The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004
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Revolution, the Cameronians continued a sect strong in numbers and vehement in their political opinions, whom Government wished to discourage, while they prudently temporised with them.
Old Mortality 2004
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The general temporised with him till they came to the fringe of tropic trees by the bridge; and there by the singing river and the sunlit palms
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