tergiversation

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TERGIVERSA'TION, noun A shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being more free from passion and tergiversation 1. Change; fickleness of conduct. The colonel, after all his tergiversation lost his life in the king's service.
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