† equivocacyn.
Obsolete. rare.
Equivocal character.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > [noun]
ambiguitya1325
doublenessa1513
ambiguousness1542
double meaning1551
indifferency1596
equivocacy1646
equivocalness1647
ambilogy1656
greyness1663
mealy-mouthedness1697
amphilogy1731
equivocality1735
grey1822
double-edgedness1901
ambivalence1912
ambivalency1912
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. vii. 120 Againe, it is unreasonable to ascribe the equivocacy of this forme unto the hatching of a Toade. View more context for this quotation
1847 in J. Craig New Universal Dict. ; and in mod. Dicts.
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