Webster's 1828 Dictionary
TEMPORIZER
n.One who yields to the time, or complies with the prevailing opinions, fashions or occasions; a trimmer.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
TEMPORIZER
TEMPORIZER Tem "po *ri `zer, n.
Defn: One who temporizes; one who yields to the time, or complies with the prevailing opinions, fashions, or occasions; a trimmer. A sort of temporizers, ready to embrace and maintain all that is, or shall be, proposed, in hope of preferment. Burton.
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