Adjective : an equivocal answer. ,aliens of equivocal loyalty. ,an equivocal attitude. From Dictionary.com.
Things are said to be named 'equivocally' when, though they have a common name, the definition corresponding with the name differs for each. From Wordnik.com. [Categoriae. English] Reference
That paradox, like most paradoxes, ends equivocally. From Wordnik.com. [LITERARY PARADOX] Reference
It should be remembered that the word evolution may be used equivocally. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Yet neither are such names ascribed merely equivocally, as some have said. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
She added equivocally to his sir lence, "Can you bear it if I tell you a riddle?". From Wordnik.com. [Harpist in the Wind]
Knickerbocker (September 1848) writes a bit more equivocally in a six page review. From Wordnik.com. [Acting 'Natural': Vanity Fair and the UnMasking of Anglo-American Sentiment] Reference
Yet neither are the things ascribed entirely different, as they are when ascribed equivocally. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
Now her head equivocally moved upright with the speed at which she remembered, yet she remained silent. From Wordnik.com. [Grant Whitney Harvey: Moonshadows: Part 4] Reference
˜Socrates™, which in the same sense, i.e., when not used equivocally, is only predicable of one man. From Wordnik.com. [The Medieval Problem of Universals] Reference
"Friar John" is a mighty man of valor, who figures equivocally in the story of Gargantua and Pantagruel. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
"Enough to conform," she rejoined equivocally, pulling out the dried wood from the oven and replacing it with wet. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER 4] Reference
This faith I grant to be true in its kind, and not merely to be equivocally so called: it is not pistis pseudōnumos. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Justification by Faith] Reference
And just so you know, I am not a "mainlander Taiwanese", as some patron of yours so equivocally and hostilely put it. From Wordnik.com. [Intercultural Religion Mis-interpretation] Reference
Usually he overdid things, this time he got it right, or as right as something only equivocally right in itself can be got. From Wordnik.com. [A Morbid Taste For Bones]
If we apply the word 'law' to it as we usually do, we do so equivocally, because it is missing the element of being binding. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-02-01] Reference
Questions which Clyde could do no more than ignore, or if not, answer as equivocally or evasively or indifferently as possible. From Wordnik.com. [An American Tragedy] Reference
"I don't go anywhere else," said Jerry, equivocally. From Wordnik.com. [Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves] Reference
"It is very late," replied the churlish landlord, equivocally. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Maltravers — Complete] Reference
"That's the worst of the medical profession," he added, equivocally. From Wordnik.com. [Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University] Reference
Hall, he made a communication to O'Grady, so equivocally worded that the. From Wordnik.com. [Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes] Reference
"On the contrary," returned Kennedy, equivocally, "we found it far from slow.". From Wordnik.com. [The Ear in the Wall] Reference
"Do you dare to reply to me equivocally, when I have asked a positive answer?". From Wordnik.com. [A Simple Story] Reference
The voice halted suddenly, and the speaker looked at his companion equivocally. From Wordnik.com. [The Dominant Dollar] Reference
Others of their circle, however, found themselves somewhat equivocally situated. From Wordnik.com. [The Extra Day] Reference
For an hour, through their speaking trumpets, the captains equivocally conversed. From Wordnik.com. [Israel Potter] Reference
Mr. Woodhouse lives equivocally close to the town, his "place" is distinguished by a separate name. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
The lieutenant wrinkled his eyebrows a little more and the small man nodded toward Fray Damaso equivocally. From Wordnik.com. [The Social Cancer] Reference
Those who are not so I find still less congenial; they talk equivocally to the ladies, and the latter encourage them shamefully. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle] Reference
'You are too diffident, perhaps, of your powers,' said she; and there was a faint curl of the lip that made the words sound equivocally. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Kilgobbin] Reference
When words are used equivocally I receive them in either sense; when they are metaphorical, I adopt them in their primitive acceptation. From Wordnik.com. [Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations] Reference
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