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
16 May 2025
(adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
