tergiversation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: tergiversation	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for tergiversation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tergiversation n falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language [syn: equivocation, tergiversation] the act of abandoning a party for cause Synonym(s): apostasy, tergiversation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tergiversation \Ter`giversa"tion\, n. [L. tergiversario: cf. F. tergiversation.] 1. The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations. --Abp. Bramhall. 2. Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change. The colonel, after all his tergiversations, lost his life in the king's service. --Clarendon.