| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| amphibology |
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| SYLLABICATION: | am·phi·bol·o·gy |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   m f -b l -j |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. am·phi·bol·o·gies
An ambiguous or equivocal statement. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French amphibologie, from Late Latin amphibologia : Latin amphibo(lia), ambiguity (from Greek amphiboli , from amphibolos, doubtful; see amphibole) + Latin -logia, -logy (added on the model of such words as tautologia, tautology).
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