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Meanings of equivocation in English

Portuguese
mentira
Catalan
prevariació
Spanish
evasivo

Intentionally vague or ambiguous.

        mentira
        Portuguese
        evasão
        Catalan
        equívoc

        A statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth.

              evasão
              Catalan
              ambigüitat
              Spanish
              ambigüedad

              Falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language.

                    ambigüitat
                    Spanish
                    equivocación

                    The information that is lost during transmission over a channel between an information source (sender) and an information sink (receiver)

                            Related terms
                            equivocación
                            Usage of equivocation in English
                            1
                            But the long years of European equivocation and denial have proved calamitous.
                            The Guardian
                            2
                            Directness, he said, was required in place of equivocation based on delicacy.
                            Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965
                            3
                            Twelves, taking this equivocation as weakness, eyed him with cool, contemptuous pity.
                            The street philosopher
                            4
                            That equivocation and obduracy are being egged on by venomous Irish revisionism.
                            The Irish Times
                            5
                            He was prepared for equivocation, possibly for denial, but not for attack.
                            The House of the Whispering Pines
                            6
                            Sensing this was a woman who did not fancy equivocation, I did.
                            Bare Bones
                            7
                            Mr Andrews's equivocation describes the current state of Irish neutrality in a nutshell.
                            The Irish Times
                            8
                            Hence it is clear that the objection rests on an equivocation.
                            Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) / From the Complete Americ...
                            9
                            The equivocation favoured by such language at once begins to appear.
                            The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress
                            10
                            This equivocation within the conservative community is manifesting itself in a slugfest online.
                            Wired
                            11
                            It was possible, perhaps, to escape the confession of the truth by equivocation.
                            Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
                            12
                            Might was right, without equivocation or disguise, in that heroic and chivalrous age.
                            Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
                            13
                            If I suffocated my stepmother, her own polite equivocation would justify the act.
                            The Guilty River
                            14
                            Her enthusiasm was so great that it reduced him to something like equivocation.
                            The Path of a Star
                            15
                            There is nothing which I more detest than equivocation and mystery.
                            Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
                            16
                            No insinuation is too base, no equivocation too mean, no artifice too paltry.
                            Diary in America, Series Two
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                            Translations for equivocation
                            Equivocation through the time
                            Equivocation across language varieties
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