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Definition of Equivocates
1. equivocate [v] - See also: equivocate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Equivocates
Literary usage of Equivocates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume (1890)
"... in which he equivocates between body Locke is body 'in itself' or as the
real)—and it is clearly ..."
2. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green (1894)
"Locke gets out of the difficulty by his doctrine of solidity. in which he
equivocates between body Locke is body 'in itself or as the real)—and it is ..."
3. English Synonyms Discriminated by William Taylor (1856)
"He talks ambiguously who blunders into double meaning; he equivocates, who
purposely recurs to it. CLEAR. ..."
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