timeservingness

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noun

The quality of being time-serving.

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Meanings

nountimeservingness (uncountable)

alternative time-servingness

  1. uncountableThe quality of being time-serving.

    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.

    1855, The Ecclesiastic, page 346

Origin

From time-serving + -ness.

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timeservingness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/timeservingness

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“timeservingness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/timeservingness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “timeservingness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/timeservingness.

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