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present participle and gerund of parley examples
countable and uncountable, plural parleyings
The act of one who parleys. quotations examples
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 […]
a. 1758, Jonathan Edwards, Pressing Into The Kingdom of God
He and Colonel Rotton, who was also Chairman for a period, could generally make the lads on arrival understand them without much parleying.
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