[f. prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb EQUIVOCATE; prevarication.

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1606.  St. Trials, H. Garnet (R.). This equivocating and lying is a kind of unchastity.

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a. 1714.  Burnet, Own Time (1766), I. 146. An equivocating … that did not become a Prince.

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