Meaning of ambilevous | Babel Free

Definitions

Having equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered.

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Examples

“Again, Some are Ἀμφαριστεροὶ as Galen hath expreſſed : that is, Ambilevous or left-handed on both ſides; ſuch as with agility and vigour have⟳ not the uſe of either : who are not gymnaſtically compoſed : nor actively uſe thoſe parts. Now in theſe there is no right hand : of this conſtitution are many women, and ſome men, who though they accuſtome themſelves unto either hand, do dexterouſly make⟳ uſe of neither.”

“Whereas the ambidextrous person is regarded as one who is capable of using both hands with equal dexterity, there are others, referred to as ambilevous, who use⟳ both hands equally awkwardly.”

“The ambilevous (the opposite of ambidextrous) child is unable to use⟳ either hand more skillfully than the other, but is equally awkward in the use⟳ of each.”

“I as a right-handed person do not have⟳ the option of becoming genuinely ambidextrous, literally one with ‘two right hands’. And I surely must guard against sinking into one is who is doubly left-handed, or ambilevous. (We may notice⟳ the prejudice uncovered by etymology.) But I can, by will and practice, lessen⟳ the native inferiority of my weaker side.”

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