What does parleying mean?

parleying

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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present participle and gerund of parley

noun

The act of one who parleys.

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

parleyings (plural)

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