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equivocation

[ ih-kwiv-uh-key-shuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the use of equivocal or ambiguous expressions, especially in order to mislead or hedge; prevarication.
an equivocal, ambiguous expression; equivoque:
The speech was marked by elaborate equivocations.
Logic. a fallacy caused by the double meaning of a word.

1350–1400; Middle English equivocacion < Late Latin aequivocātiōn- (stem of aequivocātiō ). See equivocate, -ion

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