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n. - An ambiguous grammatical construction.

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Usage examples (8)
  • This artifice is called equivocation or amphibology; it consists in the use of words that have a natural double meaning; it supposes in him who resorts to it the right...
  • It had been an excellent quaere to have posed the devil of Delphos, and must needs have forced him to some strange amphibology.
  • It had been an excellent Quære52 to have posed the Devil of Delphos, 53 and must needs have forced him to some strange amphibology.
  • He spoke of him afterwards as “that amphibolous being sitting calmly and unmoved on the throne of amphibology, while he cheats and deludes us by his double meaning,...
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