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timeservingness

timeservingness noun: the quality of being time-serving.

Noun

timeservingness (uncountable)

  1. 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

Forms of timeservingness

alternative formtime-servingness

Origin of timeservingness

From time-serving + -ness.

Questions about timeservingness

What does timeservingness mean?
Timeservingness means the quality of being time-serving.
What part of speech is timeservingness?
Timeservingness is a noun.

Words near timeservingness in the dictionary

  1. timesed
  2. timeseries
  3. timeserver
  4. timeservers
  5. timeserving
  6. timeservingness
  7. timeservings
  8. timeses
  9. timeshare
  10. timeshared
  11. timeshares

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