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Significats de ambage en anglès

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A style that involves indirect ways of expressing things.

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        Ús de ambage en anglès
        1
        The doctor still answered per ambages, ut mos oraculis.
        It Is Never Too Late to Mend
        2
        There should be ambages in such a matter.
        The Belton Estate
        3
        And the ambages should take time.
        The Belton Estate
        4
        It is true, in doing this, I may perhaps be obliged to use some AMBAGES, and ways of speech not common.
        Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sce...
        5
        No "longæ ambages" for him.
        Castle Richmond
        6
        But 'art is a second nature, and imitateth that dextrously and compendiously, which nature performs by ambages and length of time.'
        The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
        7
        The American Minister in such matters was accustomed to fewer ambages than were common in the circles among which Mr. Glascock had lived.
        He Knew He Was Right
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