ambages
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈam.bɪ.d͡ʒɪz/
- (archaic) Indirect or roundabout ways of talking; circumlocution.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:, Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.169:
- Having thus briefly anatomized the body and soul of man, […] I may now freely proceed to treat of my intended subject, to most men's capacity; and after many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is […].
- (archaic) Indirect or roundabout routes or directions.
- 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford:
- Paris put fear into him, a city of monstrous size to which London was but a market town. Its ambages of streets bewildered.
- 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford:
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