Timeserving

Definition of Timeserving

Time´serv`ing

a.	1.	Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.
n.	1.	An obsequious compliance with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power, which implies a surrender of one's independence, and sometimes of one's integrity. Trimming and timeserving, which are but two words for the same thing, . . . produce confusion. - South. [I] pronounce thee . . . a hovering temporizer, that Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil, Inclining to them both. - Shak.

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