apostasy, tergiversation
(noun) the act of abandoning a party for cause
equivocation, tergiversation
(noun) falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
Source: WordNet® 3.1
tergiversation (countable and uncountable, plural tergiversations)
The act of abandoning something or someone, of changing sides; desertion; betrayal.
The act of evading any clear course of action or speech, of being deliberately ambiguous; equivocation; fickleness.
• interrogatives, reinvestigator
Source: Wiktionary
Ter`gi*ver*sa"tion, n. Etym: [L. tergiversario: cf. F. tergiversation.]
1. The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations. Abp. Bramhall.
2. Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change. The colonel, after all his tergiversations, lost his life in the king's service. Clarendon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 November 2024
(adjective) not functioning properly; “something is amiss”; “has gone completely haywire”; “something is wrong with the engine”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
