amphiboly

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amphiboly

/amˈfɪbəli/ UK

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From Old French amphibolie, from Latin amphibolia, from Ancient Greek ἀμφιβολία (amphibolía, “ambiguity”).

noun amphibolies

countable, rhetoric, uncountable An ambiguous grammatical construction. 1781, Kant, "Critique of Pure Reason," from John Meiklejohn 1855 translation Without this reflection I should make a very unsafe use of these conceptions, and construct pretended synthetical propositions which critical reason cannot acknowledge and which are based solely upon a transcendental amphib

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noun an ambiguous grammatical construction

Español	anfibología
हिन्दी	संदिग्धता sandigdhatā, अनेकार्थकता anekārthaktā

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@misc{amphiboly_2026,
  title = {amphiboly},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/amphiboly},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}