temporize

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temporize englannista suomeksi

  1. viivytellä

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  2. viivytellä

temporize englanniksi

  1. To deliberately act evasively or prolong a discussion in order to gain time or postpone a decision, sometimes so that a compromise can be reached or simply to make a conversation more temperate; to for time.

  2. 2020, Nghi Vo, ''When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain'', chapter 8:

  3. “There are more answers to that than you may think,” Chih temporized, because there were, but they could see that there was only one answer that really mattered to tigers.
  4. To discuss, to negotiate; to reach a compromise.

  5. (RQ:Shakespeare King John)

  6. (RQ:Scott Peveril of the Peak)

  7. To apply a temporary piece of dental work that will later be removed.

  8. (quote-journal)

  9. To comply with the occasion or time; to humour, or yield to, current circumstances or opinion; also, to (l).

  10. (RQ:Daniel Civil Wars)

  11. (RQ:Burton Melancholy)

  12. (quote-book)|title=The History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II, King of England, and Lord of Ireland:(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) J. C. for Charles Harper ... Samuel Crouch ... and Thomas Fox ...|year=1627|year_published=1680|lines=301–302|oclc=1171083400|newversion=republished in|editor2=Randall Martin|title2=Women Writers in Renaissance England|location2=Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.|publisher2=Routledge|year2=2014|section2=part 2 (Prose)|page2=176|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=0HYQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA176|isbn2=978-1-4082-0499-3|passage=Though that her heart were fired, and swollen with anger, she temporiseth so, 'twas undiscovered: ...

  13. (RQ:Fielding Amelia)

  14. (RQ:Macaulay History of England)

  15. To delay, especially until a more favourable time; to procrastinate.

  16. (RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing Q) haue not ſpent all his quiuer in Venice, thou wilt quake for this ſhortly. / ''Bened''''ick''. I looke for an earthquake too then. / ''Pedro.'' Well, you will temporize with the howres, ...

  17. (RQ:Bacon Henry 7)&93; deceiued of his hopes of the Countries concourſe vnto him (in which caſe he would haue temporized) and ſeeing the buſineſſe paſt Retraict, reſolued to make on where the King &91;(w)&93; was, and to giue him Battaile; ...

  18. To take temporary measures or actions to manage a situation without providing a definitive or permanent solution.