timeservingness

English

Etymology

time-serving +‎ -ness

Noun

timeservingness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being time-serving.
    • 1855, The Ecclesiastic, page 346:
      Subtlety may indeed effect a victory at the deadening cost of a sin, but timeservingness can only get transitory advantage, while the damage of its untruthfulness leaves its corroding taint behind for ever.

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