Meaning of ambages | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Indirect or roundabout ways of talking; circumlocution.
   archaic, plural, plural-only
2. Indirect or roundabout routes or directions.
   archaic, plural, plural-only

Examples

“Thus from her cell Cumæan Sibyl sings / Ambiguous ambages, the cloyster rings / With the shrill sound thereof, in most dark strains.”

“Having thus briefly anatomized the body and soul of man,[…]I may now freely proceed to treat of my intended subject, to most men's capacity; and after many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is[…].”

“Paris put fear into him, a city of monstrous size to which London was but a market town. Its ambages of streets bewildered.”

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