Tergiversation
I learned a new word tonight, courtesy of Perry Miller:
tergiversate: 1. To use evasions or ambiguities; equivocate. 2. To change sides; apostatize.
“When God promises to abide by stated terms, His word, of course, is to be trusted; but then, what is man that he dare accuse Omnipotence of tergiversation?”[1]
- Perry Miller, Errand into the Wilderness (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap, 1956), 11. ↩
