Definitions for: Tergiversation

[n] the act of abandoning a party or cause
[n] falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language

Webster (1913) Definition: Ter`gi*ver*sa"tion, n. [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.

Synonyms: apostasy, equivocation

See Also: abandonment, desertion, falsification, forsaking, misrepresentaation

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