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1
deliberate evasion in speech
- your equivocation when asked where you were last night is not reassuring
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2
the quality or state of having a veiled or uncertain meaning
- the equivocation of the last line of the poem, "That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"
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“Equivocation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equivocation. Accessed 28 Nov. 2021.
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The first known use of equivocation was in 1609
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