Ambodexter

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of ambidexter. alt-of, obsolete

    "men are evil, wicked, malicious, treacherous, and naught, not loving one another, or loving themselves, not hospitable, charitable, nor sociable as they ought to be, but counterfeit, dissemblers, ambodexters, all for their own ends, hard-hearted, merciless, pittiless ; and, to benefit themselves, they car? not what mischiefe they procure to others."

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"men are evil, wicked, malicious, treacherous, and naught, not loving one another, or loving themselves, not hospitable, charitable, nor sociable as they ought to be, but counterfeit, dissemblers, ambodexters, all for their own ends, hard-hearted, merciless, pittiless ; and, to benefit themselves, they car? not what mischiefe they procure to others."

Etymology

From Latin ambidexter. Compare ambo-.

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