[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That equivocates, in senses of the verb.
1645. Milton, Tetrach., Introd. (1851), 140. A late equivocating Treatise.
1659. T. Pecke, Parnassi Puerp., 155. Equivocating Fortune gave the Day To Cæsar in the large Pharsalia.
1707. (title) The Church of England not in Danger and What a Bifarious, equivocating, sort of Cant does Mr. Higgins employ.
1881. Miss Braddon, Asphodel, III. 300. Her equivocating answer.
Hence Equivocatingly adv.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 289. He answered æquivocatingly; that [etc.].
1884. A. Forbes, Chinese Gordon, ii. 92. Bailey replied, equivocatingly, that he had heard so.
