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Amphibology

//amfɪˈbɒlədʒi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Amphiboly. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "In Athens men learn'd […] to resolve a sophisticall argument, and to confound the imposture and amphibologie of words, captiously enterlaced together […]"

  2. 2
    an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., ‘they are flying planes’ can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes wordnet

Etymology

From French amphibologie, from late Latin amphibologia, earlier amphibolia, from Ancient Greek ἀμφιβολία (amphibolía, “ambiguity”).

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