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temporiser

temporiser is the alternative form of temporizer.

Meaning of temporizer

Noun

temporizer (plural temporizers)

  1. A person who temporizes
    • I pronounce thee a hovering temporizer, that Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil, Inclining to them both.c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Forms of temporiser

pluraltemporisers

Questions about temporiser

What is temporiser the alternative form of?
Temporiser is the alternative form of temporizer.

Words near temporiser in the dictionary

  1. temporisation
  2. temporisations
  3. temporise
  4. temporised
  5. temporisedst
  6. temporiser
  7. temporisers
  8. temporises
  9. temporisest
  10. temporiseth
  11. temporising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: temporiser (page history and authors); temporizer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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