From For the Hearts
The inverse symbols -, = are ambiguous, and in fact are rarely used. Consequently the position of the see was somewhat ambiguous, and Baudry is referred to both as archbishop and as bishop of Dol. He married the daughter of Milo of Gloucester, and played an ambiguous part in Stephen’s reign, siding at first with the king and afterwards with the empress. In the Priestly Code, c. 409 B.C., there is no reference to angels apart from the possible suggestion in the ambiguous plural in Genesis i. 26. The term as generally used, however, is highly ambiguous. They thus occupied an ambiguous position on the borders of Judaism. The term “coercion” is inevitably somewhat ambiguous, and depends on the circumstances of the case. The term “implied contract” is current in this connexion, but it is unfortunately ambiguous. Ariamnes (68-53) played an ambiguous part. The expression summary offence is ambiguous. The strength of painting and sculpture lies in this, that though there are countless phenomena which they cannot represent at all, and countless more which they can onlyrepresent by symbolism and suggestion more or less ambiguous, yet there are a few which each can represent more fully and directly than poetry can represent any thing at all. The term “Hellenism” is ambiguous. If the language of Homer is so ambiguous where the use of writing would naturally be mentioned, we cannot expect to find more decisive references elsewhere. Moreover, verse is better suited to ambiguity, and oracles nowadays have less need to be ambiguous (§ 88). The term “animism”, which embodies Tylor’s classical theory of primitive religion, is unfortunately somewhat ambiguous. The term Roman law is indefinite and ambiguous, being used in more than one sense. We therefore come but too often upon very ambiguous groups of letters. The theism of Hegel is ambiguous. This was ambiguous and was interpreted variously. His behaviour after his return was ambiguous. A protocol defining certain ambiguous conditions in the German treaty.
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