Obs. [f. TIME sb. + -LING1.] A time-server.

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1563.  Becon, Humble Supplic., Wks. III. 21. Mynisters, whiche are faynteharted, and … but tymelynges, seruing rather the tyme (as the manner of the worldlynges is).

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1631.  Wilson, Sweiser, II. i. 158. What sayes my Lip-Ladds: My little Time-lings?

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