Found 2 items, similar to tergiversation.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: tergiversation tergiversation n 1: falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language [syn: equivocation] 2: the act of abandoning a party or cause [syn: apostasy]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Tergiversation 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]