Category:Tergiversation

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.