Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tergiversation"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Tergiversation \Ter`gi*ver*sa"tion\, n. [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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

tergiversation
n 1: falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language [syn:
{equivocation}]
2: the act of abandoning a party or cause [syn: {apostasy}]

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