[f. next + -ATION.] The action of temporizing.
1. Time-serving, ‘trimming’; compromise.
1763. Johnson, Misc. Lives, Ascham, Wks. IV. 631. Charges of temporization and compliance had somewhat sullied his reputation.
1839. Fraser’s Mag., XX. 97. Her policy is one of temporisation. Ibid. (1851), XLIII. 139. A union … was consequently thought of, as the best means of temporization.
2. Procrastination, delay; gaining of time.
1888. Times, 19 Oct., 5/1. The inevitable reaction against the policy of adjournment and temporization.
