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ambages
[ am-bey-jeez ]
noun
, Archaic.
- winding, roundabout paths or ways.
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Example Sentences
Its origin is involved in obscurity: but may it not be a corruption of the Latin ambages, or the singular ablative ambage?
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Give me your hand, and answer me without ambages, or ambiguities.
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Après l'exposé, Arsay entra alors carrément dans le vif de la discussion et posa le problème sans ambages, dans son vrai jour.
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Peter begins to beat about the bush (discurrere per ambages), and declares it to be heretical to quote an infidel like Merlin.
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Longa est injuria, longæ ambages; but the story rests on the evidence of independent witnesses.
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