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单词 equivocator
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equivocatorn.

/iːˈkwɪvəkeɪtə/
Etymology: < late Latin aequivocātor, agent-noun < aequivocāre : see equivocate n. and -or suffix.
One who equivocates.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > [noun] > deliberate > exploiter of
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1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 102 The Iesuites are noted..to be too hardie æquivocators.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. i. ii. 61 The second ranck is of Liers, and Æquivocaters, as Apollo Pythius, and the like.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 304 He was..a Sycophant, an Equivocator.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xv. 28 You little Equivocator! what do you mean by hardly?
1864 J. H. Newman Apologia App. 76 But an equivocator uses them in a received sense, though there is another received sense.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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