You may call this a double sense of words, if you like; but by such double senses deceptions are not caused or promoted--they are cleared away.
It must be declared by unambiguous words, incapable of a double sense.
It must not, like the witches in Macbeth, "palter in a double sense.
Our axiom, therefore, is à priori in a double sense.
Our axiom is therefore à priori in a double sense 160 II.
A cipher with a double sense, one clear, and in which it is said that the sense is hidden.
The place speedily fell into his hands; and his gallantry--in a double sense--made him with the brave and the fair an equal favourite.
At one time the battle seemed so much in favour of the Latins, that Aulus entreated the Romans not to resign themselves to the ravens, to be crowed over in a double sense, by the birds of prey and the enemy.
Arnold) continues: 'The notion of a double sense in prophecy has been treated by some persons with contempt.
In justification of this idea of a double sense, he (Dr.
I had hardly ever made such a hit before; a “hit,” I may say, in a double sense.
This perfection of ours may be considered in a double sense.
Wherefore it is requisite to know that rhyme may be considered in a double sense, that is to say, in a wide and in a narrow sense.
A man can deny or refuse a thing in a double sense.
In attempting to visit this tumolus, I soon found myself in the center of a morass; and here, my dear reader might have seen the historian set fast in a double sense.
Our health and our feet, in a double sense, go together.
Both the old copies read, that carries a double sense, but it is clearly a misprint.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "double sense" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
