单词 | amphibology |
释义 | amphibology (once / 695254 pages) n WORD FAMILY amphibology: amphibologies USAGE EXAMPLESHere’s where the book gets funny, shuffling through various 13th-century attempts to salvage dishonesty: equivocation, mental reservation, amphibology. Slate(Feb 06, 2015) It had been an excellent quaere to have posed the devil of Delphos, and must needs have forced him to some strange amphibology. Browne, Thomas, Sir, Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and t...(2010) Of course, the theologians who advocated amphibology operated from a religious framework that feels remote to us now. Slate(Feb 06, 2015) n an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes Syn|Hyper amphiboly ambiguity an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context |
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