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Ambiguities

Ambiguity \Am`bi*gu"i*ty\, n.; pl. Ambiguities. [L. ambiguitas, fr. ambiguus: cf. F. ambiguit['e].] The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression.

No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be pursued.
--I. Taylor.

The words are of single signification, without any ambiguity.
--South.

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ambiguities

n. (plural of ambiguity English)

Usage examples of "ambiguities".

It had been simple enough to see that the Alvarado who had greeted him in the Ministry of Scientific Development was a replica, but here, at this distance, in this room that resonated with the presence of the Maximum Leader, there were too many ambiguities and uncertainties.

These additional uses of the allative and ablative cases may lead to some ambiguities: Is lenden i coanna to be interpreted "I went to the house" or "I went into the house"?

So that we don't have it getting out that the Fairfax County Police Department is interviewing a Navy admiral in connection with a possible homicide, when all you have are-what was it-'forensic ambiguities'?

Mcnair frowned but then said, "Sir, as I told Admiral Carpenter yesterday, we have no probable cause to suspect foul play here, although there are some minor forensic ambiguities.

Do you suppose these are the forensic ambiguities Mcnair was talking about?

Perhaps I can find out what the rest of those forensic ambiguities are.

The built-in ambiguities of the sign-language grammar we must use with them complicate the issue.

Anyway, none of his students is likely to appreciate the ambiguities of the Victorian class structure.

He tries to decide whether he was too subtle in putting across the moral ambiguities, or whether the girl has concluded that he is paranoid.

His attempt at divination had ended in ambiguities and uncertainties, as such attempts often did.

He tried to summon his knowledge of the chronicles, but all that would rise to his mind was cloudy ambiguities.