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Definition of Equivocates

Equivocate
Equivocate E*quiv"o*cate, v. t. To render equivocal or ambiguous. He equivocated his vow by a mental reservation. --Sir G. Buck.

Meaning of Equivocates from wikipedia

- In logic, equivocation ("calling two different things by the same name") is an informal fallacy resulting from the use of a particular word or expression...
- recruitment for some period of years or the duration. Congress and the states equivocated. Governor Brown of Georgia became "the first and most persistent critic"...
- between holidays, which she interprets as a proposal. He affirms it but equivocates that only when he can afford to. Leaving empty-handed, Ted and Danny...
- a sceptic. Also: person of indeterminate ideology or conviction; an equivocator. : B. adj[ective]. :# Of or relating to the belief that the existence...
- difference" between Jinn of the first and second kind.: 2320  Krasnikov equivocates between "Jinn", "self-sufficient loops", and "self-existing objects"...
- situation deteriorated, Leon Trotsky and Yakov Sverdlov began to publicly equivocate about the possible fate of the former tsar. On 16 July, the Yekaterinburg...
- a sceptic. Also: person of indeterminate ideology or conviction; an equivocator. : B. adj[ective]. :# Of or relating to the belief that the existence...
- allusion to Garnet. The porter goes on to say that the equivocator "yet could not equivocate to heaven" (2.3.10–11), echoing grim jokes that were current...
- Hence, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of the English language lists "equivocating" as a secondary denotation of the word "Jesuit". Modern critics of the...
- according to Ginet and van Inwagen. One response to this argument is that it equivocates on the notions of abilities and necessities, or that the free will evoked...