英和和英

名詞

parleying (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 parleyings)

1. The act of one who parleys.
   • a. 1758, Jonathan Edwards, Pressing Into The Kingdom of God

     Those things […] about which he was wont to have long parleyings and disputings with his own conscience — employing carnal reason to invent arguments and pleas of excuse — he now sticks at no longer […]

   • 1907, George Haw, “A Bad Boys’ Advocate”, in From Workhouse to Westminster: The Life Story of Will Crooks, M.P., London; Paris; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Cassell and Company, Limited, page 141:

     He and Colonel Rotton, who was also Chairman for a period, could generally make the lads on arrival understand them without much parleying.

アナグラム

• pargyline, prelaying, replaying