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noun

Tergiversation n.

The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. "Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations."

Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change. "The colonel, after all his tergiversations, lost his life in the king's service."

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Etymology of 'Tergiversation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tergiversation" Quotes from Famous Books

... obliterate the impression produced by his countenance, and charm those whom it was his interest to please. His effrontery was unconquerable: whilst conscious of the most venal motives, and even after he had displayed to the world a shameless tergiversation, he had the assurance always to claim for himself the merit of patriotism. "For my part," he said on one occasion, in conversation with his friends, "I die a ...

— Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 - Volume II. • Mrs. Thomson

Words linked to "Tergiversation" : forsaking, equivocation, apostasy, abandonment, falsification, tergiversate, misrepresentation