[f. prec. + -ITY.] The quality or condition of being equivocal; also concr. Something that is equivocal; an equivoque.

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1734.  trans. Rollin’s Anc. Hist. (1827), I. Pref. p. lviii. I repeat it in Latin because the equivocality … will not subsist in a translation.

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1830.  Galt, Lawrie T., VI. i. (1849), 254. They interpreted her equivocalities, as she intended they should.

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1847.  Fraser’s Mag., XXXVI. 569. The conduct of Lady Hamilton and Nelson was … guaranteed against equivocality by the fact of Sir William Hamilton’s station in life.

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1881.  Contemp. Rev., June, 889. Suggesting ideas by such equivocalities.

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