ambiguity

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

AMBIGU'ITY, noun [Latin ambiguitas, from ambigo.] Doubtfulness or uncertainty of signification, from a word's being susceptible of different meanings; double meaning. Words should be used which admit of no ambiguity
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