ambagious - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'ambagious' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Ambagious

[ a.]

- Circumlocutory; circuitous.

1 . ambagious

[ s]

Meaning (1):
- roundabout and unnecessarily wordy

Example in sentence:

A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.;
had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression

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