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equivocation
  1. (logic) A logical fallacy resulting from the use of multiple meanings of a single expression.
  2. The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, possibly intentionally and with the aim of misleading.
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    1. “I can say, without equivocation, that Allen's methods really do work.”
      “The story, if it can be called that, opens in mystery and proceeds through ambiguity, equivocation, and vagueness.”
      “In this respect, the government's nuclear policy has been one of dissemblance and equivocation.”
equivocal
equivocator
  1. Agent noun of equivocate; one who equivocates.
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    1. “One sees from Kastner's talk that he is a skilled equivocator.”
      “Mackenzie King was a weasel and an equivocator who had an unbreakable power base in isolationist Quebec, but he would not abandon Britain.”
      “Fox News has released some excerpts that seem to be in keeping with Mr. Perry's shift to a more combative stance against Mr. Romney, whom he is now aggressively painting as a political equivocator.”
equivocalness
  1. The state of being equivocal; ambiguity
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    1. “But equivocalness hangs in the air, and we're waiting for it to tip over.”
      “There was, no doubt, an equivocalness in his approach, as he pursued the interests of his family and of the state.”
      “Representatives of law enforcement and prosecutors are not often censured when they confront suspects and defendants deceptively through the use of equivocalness.”
equivocality
  1. The quality of being equivocal.
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    1. “There are all sorts of areas of social science where there is equivocality.”
      “For all its complexity and equivocality, the urge to transcend the perceived limitations of Aristotelianism remains a central philosophical motivation.”
      “This theoretical concept assumes that messages contain a certain level of equivocality, and that some media are more capable of reducing that equivocality than others.”
equivocacy
  1. equivocalness
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    1. “The equivocacy of Descartes's position was mocked by many of his contemporaries.”
      “They satisfied his desire for that elusive double who, like a parallel universe, may both share and appease the anguish of existence and the equivocacy of art.”
      “The equivocacy of scripture serves as an instrument of divine justice.”
equivocations
  1. plural of equivocation
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    1. “You read them and you see a man so cautiously calculating not to put a foot wrong that he envelops himself in a fog of caveats and equivocations.”
      “The excuses, explanations and equivocations are strictly for public consumption.”
      “It is at any rate more candid than the notoriously slimy postwar equivocations of Albert Speer.”
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