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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Ambiguous or doubtful language.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Doubtful or ambiguous language.
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- noun   ambiguous language.
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Doubtful or ambiguous language.
May 13, 2008 
			
		
	
Gammerstang commented on the word ambiloquy
(noun) - (1) The use of ambiguous expressions. --Edward Lloyd's Encyclopaedic Dictionary, 1895 (2) The use of indeterminate expressions; discourse of doubtful meaning. --Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, 1755 (3) Double-speaking. --Nathaniel Bailey's Etymological English Dictionary, 1749
April 23, 2018