English-Thai Dictionary

equivocation

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EQUIVOCATION

n.Ambiguity of speech; the use of words or expressions that are susceptible of a double signification. Hypocrites are often guilty of equivocation, and by this means lose the confidence of their fellow men. Equivocation is incompatible with the christian character and profession.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

EQUIVOCATION

EQUIVOCATION E *quiv `o *ca "tion, n.

 

Defn: 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

equivocation

e quiv o ca tion |iˌkwivəˈkāSHən ɪkwɪvəˈkeɪʃn | ▶noun the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication: I say this without equivocation.

 

Oxford Dictionary

equivocation

equivocation |ɪˌkwɪvəˈkeɪʃ (ə )n | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication: I say this without equivocation.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

equivocation

equivocation noun these attacks must be condemned without equivocation: prevarication, vagueness, qualification, ambiguity, uncertainty, ambivalence, indecision, doubt; beating about the bush, evasion, dodging, hedging, fudging, doublespeak; fencing, parrying; vacillation, shilly-shallying, cavilling, wavering, quibbling, quibble; temporizing, hesitation, stalling (for time ), shuffling; Brit. humming and hawing; informal pussyfooting (around ), waffle, waffling, flannel, weasel words; archaic paltering; rare tergiversation. ANTONYMS directness.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

equivocation

e qu ì v o c á tion 名詞 U C あいまいに言うこと, 言葉を濁すこと ; あいまいな言葉 [言い方 ], 言い逃れ .