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ambages

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈam.bɪ.d͡ʒɪz/Part of speech nounSorted aabegmsStarts with AEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action

Word origin

From Middle English ambages, from Old French ambages (modern French ambages), from Latin ambāges, from ambi- + agere (“to drive”).

Used in a sentence

  • Thus from her cell Cumæan Sibyl sings / Ambiguous ambages, the cloyster rings / With the shrill sound thereof, in most dark strains.
  • 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[…].
  • Paris put fear into him, a city of monstrous size to which London was but a market town. Its ambages of streets bewildered.

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