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▪ I. equivocating, vbl. n.|iːˈkwɪvəkeɪtɪŋ|
[f. prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb equivocate; prevarication.
1606St. Trials, H. Garnet (R.), This equivocating and lying is a kind of unchastity. a1714Burnet Own Time (1766) I. 146 An æquivocating..that did not become a Prince.
▪ II. eˈquivocating, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That equivocates, in senses of the verb.
1645Milton Tetrach. Introd. (1851) 140 A late equivocating Treatise. 1659T. Pecke Parnassi Puerp. 155 Equivocating Fortune gave the Day To Cæsar in the large Pharsalia. 1707(title), The Church of England not in Danger and What a Bifarious, equivocating, sort of Cant does Mr. Higgins employ. 1881M. E. Braddon Asph. III. 300 Her equivocating answer.
Hence eˈquivocatingly adv.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 289 He answered æquivocatingly, that, etc. 1884A. Forbes Chinese Gordon ii. 92 Bailey replied, equivocatingly, that he had heard so. |