equivocate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ɪˈkwɪvəˌkeɪt/
equivocate (equivocates, present participle equivocating; past and past participle equivocated)
- (intransitive) To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity.
- 1687, Edward Stillingfleet, The Unreasonableness of Separation: Or, An Impartial Account of the History, Nature and Pleas of the Present Separation from the Communion of the Church of England
- All that Garnet had to say for him was that he supposed he meant to equivocate.
- 1687, Edward Stillingfleet, The Unreasonableness of Separation: Or, An Impartial Account of the History, Nature and Pleas of the Present Separation from the Communion of the Church of England
- To render equivocal or ambiguous.
- He equivocated his vow by a mental reservation.
- He equivocated his vow by a mental reservation.
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