All 3 Uses
ambiguous
in
The Crying of Lot 49
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- Its quiet ambiguity shifted over, in the months after the call, to what had been revived: memories of his face, body, things he'd given her, things she had now and then pretended not to've heard him say.†
Chpt 1 *ambiguity = lack of clarity -- unclear because there could be two or more interpretations
- It is at about this point in the play, in fact, that things really get peculiar, and a gentle chill, an ambiguity, begins to creep in among the words.†
Chpt 3
- From obscure philatelic journals furnished her by Genghis Cohen, an ambiguous footnote in Motleys Rise of the Dutch Republic, an 80-year-old pamphlet on the roots of modern anarchism, a book of sermons by Blobb's brother Augustine also among Bortz's Wharfingeriana, along with Blobb's original clues, Oedipa was able to fit together this account of how the organization began: In 1577, the northern provinces of the Low Countries, led by the Protestant noble William of Orange, had been struggling nine years for independence from Catholic Spain and a Catholic Holy Roman Emperor.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(ambiguous) unclear -- because there could be two or more interpretations
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, ambiguous can mean uncertain or doubtful -- as in the expression "an ambiguous smile".