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Definition of Ambiguously
1. Adverb. In an ambiguous manner. "This letter is worded ambiguously"
Definition of Ambiguously
1. adv. In an ambiguous manner; with doubtful meaning.
Definition of Ambiguously
1. Adverb. In an ambiguous manner. ¹
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Definition of Ambiguously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambiguously
Literary usage of Ambiguously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1804)
"We remark here that proposition 6 is ambiguously worded, and that the equality
between the ... ambiguously ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Trusts and Trustees by Thomas Lewin (1837)
"But where a trustee acts ambiguously he cannot afterwards take advantage of the
doubt, and say he acted not as trustee, but in some other character. ..."
3. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... under the name of ' The learned Doctor here expresses himself ambiguously in
reference to the discordance between Tacitus and Caesar in their accounts ..."
4. Elements of Logic by Richard Whately (1913)
"I. ON CERTAIN TERMS WHICH ARE PECULIARLY LIABLE TO BE USED ambiguously. LIST OF
WORDS EXPLAINED IN THE FOLLOWING APPENDIX, IT has appeared to me desirable ..."
5. English Synonyms Discriminated by William Taylor (1856)
"He talks ambiguously who blunders into double meaning; he equivocates, who
purposely recurs to it. CLEAR. ..."
6. Saracinesca by F[rancis] Marion Crawford (1887)
"There was a phrase cunningly introduced and ambiguously worded, which seemed to
mean that he had come by his wound in her cause. He spoke of having suffered ..."
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