Timeservingness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being time-serving. uncountable

    "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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"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."

Etymology

From time-serving + -ness.

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