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Ambit   Listen
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Ambit  n.  Circuit or compass. "His great parts did not live within a small ambit."






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"Ambit" Quotes from Famous Books



... Authorised Version, Shakespeare, and Homer (though it were but in a prose translation). Two of these lie outside my marked province. Only one of them finds a place in your English school. But Homer, who comes neither within my map, nor within the ambit of the Tripos, would—because he most evidently holds the norm, the essence, the secret of all—rank first of the three ...
— On the Art of Writing - Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 • Arthur Quiller-Couch



Words linked to "Ambit" :   compass, range, spectrum, purview, latitude, internationality, extent, gamut, reach, confines, ballpark, horizon, scope, sweep, approximate range, orbit, internationalism, expanse, contrast, palette, pallet, view



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