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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.",
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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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"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
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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.",
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"ref": "1632, Vicar's Virgil, (Please provide the book title or journal name)",
"text": "Thus from her cell Cumæan Sibyl sings / Ambiguous ambages, the cloyster rings / With the shrill sound thereof, in most dark strains.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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[
"circumlocution",
"circumlocution"
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],
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"(archaic) Indirect or roundabout ways of talking; circumlocution."
],
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"archaic",
"plural",
"plural-only"
]
},
{
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"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"ref": "1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford",
"text": "Paris put fear into him, a city of monstrous size to which London was but a market town. Its ambages of streets bewildered.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Indirect or roundabout routes or directions."
],
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"(archaic) Indirect or roundabout routes or directions."
],
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"archaic",
"plural",
"plural-only"
]
}
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"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
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"French non-lemma forms",
"French noun forms",
"French terms with audio links"
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"word": "ambage"
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"plural of ambage"
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[
"ambage",
"ambage#French"
]
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"form-of",
"plural"
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}
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],
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}
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"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
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"Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin nouns",
"Latin nouns with red links in their inflection tables",
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"1": "ca",
"2": "ambages"
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"name": "desc"
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},
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{
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"1": "co",
"2": "ambacu"
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"name": "desc"
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"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "ambages"
},
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"name": "desc"
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},
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{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "ambages"
},
"expansion": "French: ambages",
"name": "desc"
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"1": "en",
"2": "ambages",
"bor": "1"
},
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"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
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{
"args": {
"1": "gl",
"2": "ambaxes"
},
"expansion": "Galician: ambaxes",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Galician: ambaxes"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "ambage"
},
"expansion": "Italian: ambage",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "ambaje",
"lbor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Polish: ambaje (learned)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Polish: ambaje (learned)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "ambages"
},
"expansion": "Portuguese: ambages",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Portuguese: ambages"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "ambages"
},
"expansion": "Spanish: ambages",
"name": "desc"
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"t2": "to behave, proceed"
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],
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"canonical",
"feminine"
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"genitive"
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"table-tags"
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"singular"
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{
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"singular"
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"genitive",
"plural"
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"form": "ambāgī",
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"dative",
"singular"
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},
{
"form": "ambāgibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
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{
"form": "ambāgem",
"source": "declension",
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"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ambāgēs",
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"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ambāge",
"source": "declension",
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"ablative",
"singular"
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},
{
"form": "ambāgibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ambāgēs",
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"singular",
"vocative"
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},
{
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"plural",
"vocative"
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{
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{
"glosses": [
"an indirect, roundabout path; a wandering to and fro, twists and turns"
],
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[
"indirect",
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[
"roundabout",
"roundabout"
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[
"wandering",
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[
"to and fro",
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[
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"declension-3"
]
},
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"Used to denote any intricate or tortuous process, system or scheme"
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"roundabout",
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"wandering",
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"to and fro",
"to and fro"
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"twists and turns",
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[
"circumlocution",
"circumlocution"
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[
"evasion",
"evasion"
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[
"digression",
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"(of discourse or behavior) circumlocution, evasion, digression, beating about the bush"
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"of discourse or behavior"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"a mental uncertainty or confusion"
],
"links": [
[
"uncertainty",
"uncertainty"
],
[
"confusion",
"confusion"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
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"ipa": "/amˈbaː.ɡeːs/",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ämˈbäːɡeːs̠]",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
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"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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"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",
"g": "m-p"
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"name": "head"
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"Old French lemmas",
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"Old French nouns",
"Old French pluralia tantum",
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"Old French terms derived from Latin"
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],
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[
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"circumlocution"
],
[
"ambages",
"ambages#English"
]
],
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"masculine",
"plural"
]
}
],
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"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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{
"word": "ambagioso"
},
{
"word": "andar con ambages"
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "loanword",
"2": "Borrowed"
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"name": "glossary"
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{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "la",
"3": "ambāges",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
"tr": "",
"ts": ""
},
"expansion": "Latin ambāges",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "la",
"3": "ambāges"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Latin ambāges",
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{
"args": {
"1": "m-p"
},
"expansion": "ambages m pl (plural only)",
"name": "es-noun"
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],
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
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],
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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": "quotation"
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],
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"circumlocution, ambages (indirect or roundabout ways of talking)"
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"links": [
[
"circumlocution",
"circumlocution"
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[
"ambages",
"ambages#English"
]
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{
"word": "circunlocución"
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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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],
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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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