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Clarke translates ‘neu longâ ambage morer vos,’ ‘that I may not detain you with a long-winded detail of it.’] [Footnote 101: _Country named.

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  1. noun Archaic Ambiguity. Often used in the plural.
  2. noun Archaic Winding ways or indirect proceedings.

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  1. Back-formation from Middle English ambages, equivocation, from Latin ambāges : amb-, ambi-, around; see ambi- + agere, to drive; see ag- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English ambages, from Old French ambages, ambagis, from Latin ambages (usually plural), a going around, circumlocution, ambiguity, from ambi-, around (see ambi-), + agere, drive, move: see agent. Cf. ambiguous. In modern use the plural is often treated as mere L.
 

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