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amphibolies

amphibolies is the plural of amphiboly.

Meaning of amphiboly

Noun

amphiboly (countable and uncountable, plural amphibolies)

  1. (rhetoric) An ambiguous grammatical construction.
    • Without this reflection I should make a very unsafe use of these conceptions, and construct pretended synthetical propositions which critical reason cannot acknowledge and which are based solely upon a transcendental amphiboly, that is, upon a substitution of an object of pure understanding for a...1781, Kant, "Critique of Pure Reason," from John Meiklejohn 1855 translation

Questions about amphibolies

What is amphibolies the plural of?
Amphibolies is the plural of amphiboly.

Words near amphibolies in the dictionary

  1. amphibolgia
  2. amphibolia
  3. amphibolic
  4. amphibolid
  5. amphibolids
  6. amphibolies
  7. amphiboliferous
  8. amphibolite
  9. amphibolites
  10. amphibolitic
  11. amphibolitization

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