Ambodexter
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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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More examples"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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