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TERGIVERSATION
VOLTAFACCIA. TRADIMENTO. TERGIVERSAZIONE
tergiversation
tergiversation
\ter`gi*ver*sa"tion\ (?), n. [l. tergiversario: cf. f. tergiversation.]
1. the act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations. bramhall.
2. fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change. the colonel, after all his tergiversations, lost his life in the king's service.
tergiversation
n
1. falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language [syn: equivocation]
2. the act of abandoning a party or cause [syn: apostasy]
Tergiversation
(n.)
The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.
(n.)
Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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