temporization

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English

Etymology

Compare French temporisation.

Noun

temporization (countable and uncountable, plural temporizations)

  1. The act of temporizing.
    • 2009, Sergey Dolgopolski, What Is Talmud?: The Art of Disagreement:
      Importantly for thinking about the Talmud, this means chronological time and temporization can never mutually coincide, a conclusion that in turn leads us to better discern Canpanton's vision of the Talmud.
  2. (dentistry) The application of a temporary piece of dental work that will later be removed.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for temporization”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)