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Definition of Tergiversators
1. tergiversator [n] - See also: tergiversator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tergiversators
Literary usage of Tergiversators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1821)
"tergiversators are not very bountifully rewarded in any country, and of ours,
with a very few exceptions, we may say " they are small among the heathen., ..."
2. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1821)
"tergiversators are not very bountifully rewarded in any country, and of ours,
with a very few.exceptions, we may say " they are small among the heathen, ..."
3. Whigs and Whiggism: Political Writings by Benjamin Disraeli (1914)
"Did anyone chalk " apostate " on the back of Lord Palmerston, or outrage the
nerves of those delicate tergiversators, the Messrs. ..."
4. Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1856)
"MY DEAR G., A man of abilities at this time might do what Pitt did at the time
of the coalition—deliver King and country from a set of tergiversators. ..."
5. Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield by Benjamin Disraeli (1882)
"Did any one chalk ' apostate ' on the back of Lord Palmerston, or outrage the
nerves of those delicate tergiversators, the Messrs. ..."
6. Glasgow and Its Clubs: Or, Glimpses of the Condition, Manners, Characters by John Strang (1856)
"... that social fraternity, it is only truth to state that not one of the members
have deserted their first love. Among the political tergiversators and ..."
7. Glasgow and Its Clubs: Or, Glimpses of the Condition, Manners, Characters by John Strang (1864)
"... that social fraternity, it is only truth to state that not one of the members
has deserted his first love. Among the political tergiversators and ..."
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