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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tergiversation \Ter'gi*ver*sa"tion\, noun [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. --Abp. Bramhall.
2. Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change.
The colonel, after all his tergiversations, lost his life in the king's service. --Clarendon.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tergiversation
noun
1: falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language [syn: {equivocation}]
2: the act of abandoning a party or cause [syn: {apostasy}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "tergiversation": about-face, amphibology, apostasy, denial, desertion, disavowal, double entendre, double meaning, equivocality, equivocation, equivoque, falseness, forswearing, recreancy, renunciation, repudiation, reversal, reverse
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