Dictionary entry

Ambiguity

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Am′bi‐gu″i‐ty (�), n.; pl.Ambiguities (�). [L. ambiguitas, fr. ambiguus: cf. F. ambiguité.] The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression.

No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be pursued.

I. Taylor.

The words are of single signification, without any ambiguity.

South.