ambage
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am·bage
(ăm'bĭj) 
n. Archaic
n. Archaic
- Ambiguity. Often used in the plural.
- ambages Winding ways or indirect proceedings.
[Back-formation from Middle English ambages, equivocation, from Latin ambāges : amb-, ambi-, around; see ambi- + agere, to drive.]
ambagious am·ba'gious (ăm-bā'jəs) adj.Random House Word Menu:
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categories related to 'ambages'
- Rhetoric and Figures of Speech - ambages: roundabout form of speaking the truth in misleading manner
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