Crossword-Solution: AMPHIBOLOGY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Amphibology | n. | A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term. |
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| an ambiguous grammatical construction | 1 answer |
| equivocation | 79 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERTA
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greedy person
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Sentences with AMPHIBOLOGY (5)
How shall we interpret Elias’s six thousand years, or imagine the secret communicated to a Rabbi which God hath denied unto his angels? It had been an excellent quære to have posed the devil of Delphos, and must needs have forced him to some strange amphibology.
This is the reason that made me formerly take notice in the life of Flaminius, in our French Plutarch, of one passage, where it seems as if the author, speaking of the jealousy of honour betwixt the AEtolians and Romans, about the winning of a battle they had with their joined forces obtained, made it of some importance, that in the Greek songs they had put the AEtolians before the Romans: if there be no amphibology in the words of the French translation.
This artifice is called equivocation or amphibology; it consists in the use of words that have a natural double meaning; it supposes in him who resorts to it the right to conceal the truth, a right superior to that of the tormentor who questions him.
Amphibology is a fallacy resulting from an ambiguous proposition rather than from the ambiguity of any particular term.
The _vitia_, from barbarism and solœcism downwards, are pure Rhetoric, containing, as they do, things like _tapeinosis_ and amphibology, with which Grammar, as such, has certainly nothing to do; and they are near the rhetorical side of Criticism herself.