About The Word Ambages
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Ambages
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What's The Definition Of Ambages?Synonyms | Synonyms for Ambages: Related Terms | Find terms related to Ambages: anfractuosity | bypass | circuit | circuitousness | circumambages | circumbendibus | circumlocution | circumvolution | convolution | crinkle | crinkling | detour | deviation | deviousness | digression | excursion | flexuosity | flexuousness | indirection | intorsion | involution | meander | meandering | obliqueness | periphrase | periphrasis | rivulation | roundabout | roundabout way | roundaboutness | sinuation | sinuosity | sinuousness | slinkiness | snakiness | torsion | tortility | tortuosity | tortuousness | turning | twisting | undulation | wave | waving | winding See Also | Ambages In Webster's Dictionary \Am*ba"ges\, n. pl. [L. (usually in pl.); pref. ambi-,
amb- + agere to drive: cf. F. ambage.]
A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding;
quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.
After many ambages, perspicuously define what this
melancholy is. --Burton.
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