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- noun rhetoric Ambiguity of grammatical structure.
Etymologies
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From Latin amphibologia, alternative form of amphibolia ("ambiguity").
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Examples
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Could he not have done better than impute _equivocations_ to me, at a time when I was in no sense answerable for the _amphibologia_ of the Roman casuists?
Apologia Pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845
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