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Definition of Timeservers
1. timeserver [n] - See also: timeserver
Lexicographical Neighbors of Timeservers
Literary usage of Timeservers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Synonymes, with Copious Illustrations and Explanations, Drawn from by George Crabb (1854)
"Sycophant courtiers must always be timeservers : ministers of state are frequently
tempo- nier». INSTANT, MOMENT. ..."
2. The American Negro as a Dependent, Defective and Delinquent by Charles Harvey McCord (1914)
"For teachers and preachers we need men, not weaklings, nor pedants, nor timeservers,
nor adventurers, nor mere hirelings. ..."
3. The Puritans: Or, The Church, Court, and Parliament of England, During the by Samuel Hopkins (1861)
"... were double-faced timeservers ; that before tribunals they were craven, and
that they there stated what they knew to be false touching matters of fact. ..."
4. Publications (1846)
"the greatest timeservers among men, and even to turn with the wmd; for when the
cross, surplice, and mass- book were urged, you yielded to them, ..."
5. The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1907)
"... dishonest and unblushing timeservers that the world has ever seen. The English
marvelled alike at both classes. There were indeed many stouthearted ..."
6. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"They have given the parliamentary nickname of Trimmers to the timeservers, whom
English character does not love.1 » It is an unlucky moment to remember ..."
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