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Definition of amphibology in English: amphibologynounPlural amphibologiesˌamfɪˈbɒlədʒiˌæmfəˈbɑlədʒi A phrase or sentence that is grammatically ambiguous, such as She sees more of her children than her husband. 语义含混的词句 Example sentencesExamples - What is perhaps most revealing about his text is its composite character, as it enacts what Browne might have called the ‘amphibologies,’ the ambiguous frames of mind of which micrography is the theater.
- I introduce a general method, the amphibologization method, to generate amphibologies in pre-existent logical calculi.
- It is his love of amphibologies, words which simultaneously swim in different semantic streams, which the author takes to facilitate if not justify this ambivalence towards subjective expression.
- Criseyde intends to enchant her father so much that he will pay no attention to Appollo's amphibologies or ambiguities.
- There are six linguistic fallacies: equivocation, amphiboly or amphibology, accent, composition, division, and figure of speech or parallel-word construction.
- More to the point, he fells a victim to an obvious amphibology.
- The pivotal role of Being is the result of a functional doubling or what he calls an "amphibology" in the meaning of Being.
- Self-destructive treason and the haunting discourse of amphibology reduce the play to the strutting and fretting of a poor player upon the stage of political battle, ultimately, in its amphibolic circularity, full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing.
- An amphibology is a statement that is ambiguous or can be taken in two ways.
- I think deliberate amphibologies are used in drafting to get to agreement more than we might like to think.
- What you said is right but I smell an amphibology here.
- Insofar as each one of the three words underlined above has more than one meaning, the sentence is an amphibology, and one difficult to translate literally.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French amphibologie, from late Latin amphibologia, from Latin amphibolia, from Greek amphibolos 'ambiguous' (see amphibole). Rhymesaetiology (US etiology), andrology, anthology, Definition of amphibology in US English: amphibologynounˌamfəˈbäləjēˌæmfəˈbɑlədʒi A phrase or sentence that is grammatically ambiguous, such as She sees more of her children than her husband. 语义含混的词句 Example sentencesExamples - The pivotal role of Being is the result of a functional doubling or what he calls an "amphibology" in the meaning of Being.
- Self-destructive treason and the haunting discourse of amphibology reduce the play to the strutting and fretting of a poor player upon the stage of political battle, ultimately, in its amphibolic circularity, full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing.
- What you said is right but I smell an amphibology here.
- I introduce a general method, the amphibologization method, to generate amphibologies in pre-existent logical calculi.
- It is his love of amphibologies, words which simultaneously swim in different semantic streams, which the author takes to facilitate if not justify this ambivalence towards subjective expression.
- An amphibology is a statement that is ambiguous or can be taken in two ways.
- Criseyde intends to enchant her father so much that he will pay no attention to Appollo's amphibologies or ambiguities.
- More to the point, he fells a victim to an obvious amphibology.
- Insofar as each one of the three words underlined above has more than one meaning, the sentence is an amphibology, and one difficult to translate literally.
- I think deliberate amphibologies are used in drafting to get to agreement more than we might like to think.
- What is perhaps most revealing about his text is its composite character, as it enacts what Browne might have called the ‘amphibologies,’ the ambiguous frames of mind of which micrography is the theater.
- There are six linguistic fallacies: equivocation, amphiboly or amphibology, accent, composition, division, and figure of speech or parallel-word construction.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French amphibologie, from late Latin amphibologia, from Latin amphibolia, from Greek amphibolos ‘ambiguous’ (see amphibole). |