parleying

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of parley

plural parleyings

1. countableuncountableThe act of one who parleys.

   He and Colonel Rotton, who was also Chairman for a period, could generally make the lads on arrival understand them without much parleying.

   1907, George Haw, “A Bad Boys’ Advocate”, in From Workhouse to Westminster: The Life Story of Will Crooks, M.P., London; Paris; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Cassell and Company, Limited, page 141

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   Those things […] about which he was wont to have long parleyings and disputings with his own conscience — employing carnal reason to invent arguments and pleas of excuse — he now sticks at no longer […]

   a. 1758, Jonathan Edwards, Pressing Into The Kingdom of God