Definition of Contemporizing

1. contemporize [v] - See also: contemporize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contemporizing

contemporaneously
contemporaneousness
contemporaries
contemporarily
contemporariness
contemporary
contemporary world
contemporisation
contemporisations
contemporise
contemporization
contemporizations
contemporize
contemporized
contemporizes
contemporizing (current term)
contempt
contempt of Congress
contempt of Parliament
contempt of court
contemptibilities
contemptibility
contemptible
contemptibleness
contemptibly
contempts
contemptuous
contemptuously
contemptuousness
contend

Literary usage of Contemporizing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Philosophy of History: An Introduction to the Philosophical Study of Politics by Alfred Henry Lloyd (1899)
"But here a reminiscence or two: History ever transcends both its stages and its localities by persistently contemporizing the former and universalizing the ..."

2. The Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell (1890)
"Mr. Carlyle has this power of contemporizing himself with bygone times, he cheats us to " Play with our fancies and believe we see "; but we find the ..."

3. Among My Books by James Russell Lowell (1904)
"Mr. Carlyle has this power of contemporizing himself with bygone times, he cheats us to " Play with our fancies and believe we see "; — but we find the ..."

4. The Old English Dramatists by James Russell Lowell (1890)
"Mr. Carlyle has this power of contemporizing himself with bygone times, he cheats us to " Play with our fancies and believe we see " ; but we find the ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Contemporizing on Dictionary.com!Search for Contemporizing on Thesaurus.com!Search for Contemporizing on Google!Search for Contemporizing on Wikipedia!

Search