See ambages on Wiktionary
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"text": "Thus from her cell Cumæan Sibyl sings / Ambiguous ambages, the cloyster rings / With the shrill sound thereof, in most dark strains.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 169:",
"text": "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[…].",
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"(archaic) Indirect or roundabout ways of talking; circumlocution."
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"ref": "1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford:",
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"(archaic) Indirect or roundabout routes or directions."
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"ambage",
"ambage#French"
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"name": "desc"
}
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},
"expansion": "Galician: ambaxes",
"name": "desc"
}
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},
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"1": "it",
"2": "ambage"
},
"expansion": "Italian: ambage",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Italian: ambage"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
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"1": "pl",
"2": "ambaje",
"lbor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Polish: ambaje (learned)",
"name": "desc"
}
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"text": "→ Polish: ambaje (learned)"
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"args": {
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"expansion": "Portuguese: ambages",
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},
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},
"expansion": "Spanish: ambages",
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}
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}
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"3": "agō",
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"id3": "abstract noun",
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"t1": "around",
"t2": "to behave, proceed"
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"feminine"
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"plural"
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{
"form": "ambāgibus",
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"dative",
"plural"
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"form": "ambāgem",
"source": "declension",
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"singular"
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{
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"tags": [
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{
"form": "ambāge",
"source": "declension",
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"ablative",
"singular"
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"form": "ambāgibus",
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"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ambāgēs",
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"singular",
"vocative"
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}
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"an indirect, roundabout path; a wandering to and fro, twists and turns"
],
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[
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],
[
"roundabout",
"roundabout"
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[
"wandering",
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"(of discourse or behavior) circumlocution, evasion, digression, beating about the bush"
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"declension-3"
]
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],
"links": [
[
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],
[
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"confusion"
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"tags": [
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"ipa": "/amˈbaː.ɡeːs/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
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"ipa": "[ämˈbäːɡeːs̠]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/amˈba.d͡ʒes/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[ämˈbäːd͡ʒes]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
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{
"word": "ambāgō"
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],
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}
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"bor": "1"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
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},
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"1": "fr",
"2": "ambages"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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}
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"2": "la",
"3": "ambāges"
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"name": "bor"
}
],
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"2": "noun",
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"Old French lemmas",
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"Old French pluralia tantum",
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"Old French terms derived from Latin",
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"Pages with entries"
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"ambages",
"ambages#English"
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"plural"
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}
],
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"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Spanish/axes",
"Rhymes:Spanish/axes/3 syllables",
"Spanish 3-syllable words",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish lemmas",
"Spanish masculine nouns",
"Spanish nouns",
"Spanish pluralia tantum",
"Spanish terms borrowed from Latin",
"Spanish terms derived from Latin",
"Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation"
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"derived": [
{
"word": "ambagioso"
},
{
"word": "andar con ambages"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "la",
"3": "ambāges"
},
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"name": "bor+"
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"categories": [
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{
"english": "But on this occasion, all the actors recognize that the Johnson government is beginning to [unambiguously] show its true colors, and that it no longer hides its final objective of ending its relationship with the EU with as few ties as possible.",
"ref": "2020 September 6, “Johnson prepara a los británicos para un Brexit duro a finales de año”, in El País:",
"text": "Pero en esta ocasión, todos los actores reconocen que el Gobierno de Johnson comienza a mostrar sin ambages sus verdaderas cartas, y que ya no disimula su objetivo final de abandonar con las menores ataduras posibles su relación con la UE.",
"type": "quote"
}
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[
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"circumlocution"
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[
"ambages",
"ambages#English"
]
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{
"word": "circunloquios"
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"masculine",
"plural",
"plural-only"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Spanish terms with rare senses"
],
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"ambages (indirect or roundabout routes or directions)"
],
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[
"ambages",
"ambages#English"
]
],
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"(rare) ambages (indirect or roundabout routes or directions)"
],
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{
"word": "rodeos"
}
],
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural",
"plural-only",
"rare"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/amˈbaxes/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ãmˈba.xes]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-axes"
}
],
"word": "ambages"
}
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