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having many or different meanings of equal probability or validity

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  • Adjective : a multivocal word
  • What are the advantages of such a multivocal narrative over one told through a single voice?
  • Yet neither could I construe this history as multivocal or multivalent, as a set of parallel and/or contending voices, narratives, or meanings of Mozambique's past.
  • Postmodernists, on the other hand, are more multivocal in their viewpoint, holding that the ownership of concepts and words is less important than their relevance to...
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