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Ambages

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am·bage  (mbj)
n. Archaic
1. Ambiguity. Often used in the plural.
2. ambages Winding ways or indirect proceedings.
[Back-formation from Middle English ambages, equivocation, from Latin ambges : amb-, ambi-, around; see ambi- + agere, to drive; see ag- in Indo-European roots.]
am·bagious (m-bjs) adj.
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Noun1.ambages - (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action
path, way of life, way - a course of conduct; "the path of virtue"; "we went our separate ways"; "our paths in life led us apart"; "genius usually follows a revolutionary path"
plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
archaicism, archaism - the use of an archaic expression
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En ese sentido, es posible retomar las palabras de Gonzalez Navarro (1957: 184) y decir "sin ambages que la politica demografica del regimen de Diaz fracaso completamente: no consiguio disminuir notablemente la mortalidad, ni tampoco recibir una cuantiosa inmigracion, ni menos aprovechar en la agricultura a los pocos extranjeros venidos".
Los extranjeros en Michoacan durante el porfiriato: aspectos ... by Pureco Ornelas, J. Alfredo / Tempo - Revista Cultura, Tecnologia Y Patrimonio
21) Given the context of his profound outrage at the papacy as an ungodly foreign force polluting the spiritual development of Christendom, Foxe is found, unsurprisingly, to insist that in the doings of the Inquisition 'all is done in hugger-mugger, & in close corners, by ambages, by couert waies, and secret counselles.
'writers to solemnise and celebrate ... Actes and memory': Foxe and ... by Hiscock, Andrew / Yearbook of English Studies
It is worth noting that Apuleius's word ambages was the Latin word most often used for the windings and blind alleys of labyrinths.
Labyrinth dances in the French and English Renaissance by Greene, Thomas M. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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