Dictionary entry

Equivocation

Webster's Dictionary 1913

E‐quiv′o‐ca″tion (?), n. The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead.

There being no room for equivocations, there is no need of distinctions. Locke.

Syn. — Prevarication; ambiguity; shuffling; evasion; guibbling. See Equivocal, a., and Prevaricate, v. i.