time-servingness
time-servingness is the alternative form of timeservingness.
Meaning of timeservingness
Noun
timeservingness (uncountable)
- The 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 of time-servingness
From time-serving + -ness.
Questions about time-servingness
- What is time-servingness the alternative form of?
- Time-servingness is the alternative form of timeservingness.
Words near time-servingness in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: time-servingness (page history and authors); timeservingness (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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