What is "deferring"

Usage examples of "deferring".

I'm no leader—and I think once people get used to deferring to Snowstar in this emergency, they won't have any more trouble deferring to him ever again.

Niall knew he was deferring to the power of the thought mirror rather than to his argument.

Once order had been restored, Poldep Officer DeVeer took up where he had left off, deferring to the Spacedep official.

A people so formal that emergencies required a ceremony, mercifully brief, for deferring the usual endless courtesies in favor of survival.

Killashandra said at last, blotting the beer foam from her upper lip and deferring conversation on Antona's unsettling advice.

He vacillated between extreme cordiality when deferring to Zainal's knowledge of some matters and total dismissal of Zainal's opinions.

Or Ugred has managed to give us more time by deferring an announcement.

And we'll be paying tithes to shiftless Weyrs deferring to Dragonriders and their women as long as this planet circles the sun.

Both reach for the coffee at the same time, Dixon elaborately deferring to Mason's over-riding need for any Antistupefacient to hand.

Dixon, being a Quaker, can hold little love for any King, Blackie, do calm down a bit, tho' his love for Christ may be another matter, and 'twas that I was deferring to, that's if you don't mind?

Sanglier was aware of it too, as he was aware of Claudine's aggressive self-assurance: she wasn't deferring to him or to Sobell.

Poulard and Siemen took part in the search of Aboku's apartment, although always deferring to the Italian.

The lack of a named companion for the scientists seemed to puzzle the feral humans' leader, but he accepted with the grace of a chieftain deferring to the ways of strangers.