亚洲网紅露点

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ambages

[ am-bey-jeez ]

noun

Archaic.
  1. winding, roundabout paths or ways.


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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of ambages1

First recorded in 1350鈥1400; Middle English, from Latin 补尘产腻驳脓蝉 (plural) 鈥渃ircuits,鈥 equivalent to amb(i)- ambi- + -腻驳- (combining form of agere 鈥渢o move鈥) + -脓蝉 plural ending; indagate
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Example Sentences

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After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is.

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He had not inquired, he had not dared to inquire how the law stood, but he knew that the law's uncertainties were proverbial and its ambages beyond telling.

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Give me your hand, and answer me without ambages, or ambiguities.

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Lay by these ambages; what seeks the Moor?

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May, in his translation of Lucan, uses the word ambages as an English word.

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