[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or condition of being equivocal.

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1647.  Hammond, Power of Keys, vi. 131. This is a mistake, arising from the equivocalnesse of the word.

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1724.  Waterland, Athan. Creed, 122. The equivocalness of the Title gave a handle to those that came after to understand it of a Form of Faith composed by Athanasius.

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1760.  C. Johnston, Chrysal (1822), I. 30. The equivocalness of my character.

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1879.  F. Taylor, in Grove, Dict. Mus., I. 19/2. This method of writing merely substitutes a greater equivocalness for a less.

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