parleying

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of parley

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of one who parleys.

   “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.”