'Tergiversation' definitions:
Definition of 'tergiversation'
From: WordNet
noun
Falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language [syn: equivocation, tergiversation]
noun
The act of abandoning a party for cause [syn: apostasy, tergiversation]
Definition of 'Tergiversation'
From: GCIDE
- Tergiversation \Ter`gi*ver*sa"tion\, n. [L. tergiversario: cf. F. tergiversation.]
- 1. The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. [1913 Webster]
- Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations. --Abp. Bramhall. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change. [1913 Webster]
- The colonel, after all his tergiversations, lost his life in the king's service. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'tergiversation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- about-face,
- amphibology,
- apostasy,
- denial,
- desertion,
- disavowal,
- double entendre,
- double meaning,
- equivocality,
- equivocation,
- equivoque,
- falseness,
- forswearing,
- recreancy,
- renunciation,
- repudiation,
- reversal,
- reverse