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The act of abandoning a party or cause
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tergiversation
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
turning dishonestly from a straightforward action or statement; shifting, shuffling, equivocation, 1560s, from Latin tergiversationem (nominative tergiversatio ) "a shifting, evasion, declining, refusing," from past participle stem of tergiversari "turn ...
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n. 1 The act of abandoning something or someone, of changing sides; desertion; betrayal. 2 The act of evading any clear course of action or speech, of being deliberately ambiguous; equivocation; fickleness.
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