ambage
ambage · ambages
Evasive or ambiguous languageEvasive or ambiguous language; circumlocution.
/ˈæmbɪd͡ʒ/
Meaning
2 senses(countable, in the plural, literary, often, rhetoric, uncountable)Evasive or ambiguous language; circumlocution.
Puttenham, Art of Poesie without any long studie or tedious ambage
(countable, in the plural, literary, often, rhetoric, uncountable)An indirect or obscure path.
More definitions
- a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
Origin
Inherited from Middle English ambages, from French ambage as well as its etymon Latin ambāInherited from Middle English ambages, from French ambage as well as its etymon Latin ambāgēs (“a roundabout or circuitous path”).
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Forms
plural: ambagesSynonyms
2 synonymsClose in meaning
- a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things:circumlocutionperiphrasis
Word family
1 related wordsRelatedambagious
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable