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tergiversations
n. (plural of tergiversation English)
Usage examples of "tergiversations".
In the newly-awakened feeling of the moment, however, he bitterly upbraided himself for his tergiversations in suffering his thoughts to vacillate between the Star of the Magalloway, who had his plighted faith, and Flower of the Lakes, who had no claims to his special consideration.
And he turned his back towards him, leaving him uncertain whether all the tergiversations of the second lighter had escaped the notice of the first.