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单词 univocal
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Definition of univocal in English:

univocal

adjective ˌjuːnɪˈvəʊk(ə)ljuːˈnɪvək(ə)lˌjunəˈvoʊkəl
Linguistics Philosophy
  • (of a word or term) having only one possible meaning; unambiguous.

    a univocal set of instructions
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Seemingly then the first of agents, to which all agency is traced back, will be a univocal agent; and so the words used of God and creatures must be univocal.
    • The univocal word brings forth a world - however subsequently modified.
    • Although this ever-more-dominant Freudian reading of The Changeling was not univocal, the play was almost universally seen as a dark love story.
    • Different though they will be, each people's theoretical construction of an event ontology would be expected to be univocal.
    • It is a univocal lipogram, in which each chapter restricts itself to the use of a single vowel.

Derivatives

  • univocality

  • nounˌjuːnɪvə(ʊ)ˈkalɪti
    Philosophy Linguistics
    • For Stewart, the mullum in parvo offers ‘a kind of univocality, a form of absolute closure; its function is to close down discourse and not to open the wounds of its inadequacies.’
      Example sentencesExamples
      • While postmodern feminism rejects the universality of truth, justice and objectivity and the univocality of ‘women,’ analytic feminism defends these notions.
      • If this attention to small linguistic details cannot satisfy us that there is a convincing univocality to the Scriptures, we must admit that the NT has mixed messages regarding ecclesial leadership by women.
      • That is to say, if we found our unity in the church grounded in a common commitment to an active evangelicity, with the episcopate in the vanguard, we might need to be less concerned about creating an artificial univocality within its ranks.
      • For Hopkins and his colleagues, neither anonymity nor any appeal to an authority that would transcend personal testimony precludes univocality.
  • univocally

  • adverbjuːnɪˈvəʊk(ə)liˌjunəˈvoʊkəli
    Philosophy Linguistics
    • This obscurity might be the reverse of their fruitfully polysemic character: only dead terms can be univocally defined!
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The question is, how can the protagonist break through this selectivity, this view that already-defined meanings are univocally fixed to signifiers?
      • Someone might want to have a certain desire, in other words, but univocally want that desire to be unsatisfied.
      • Spacetime coincidences play this privileged ontic role because they are invariant and, thus, univocally determined.
      • So the one science falls under the other ‘almost univocally.’

Rhymes

bifocal, focal, local, varifocal, vocal, yokel
 
 

Definition of univocal in US English:

univocal

adjectiveˌjunəˈvoʊkəlˌyo͞onəˈvōkəl
Linguistics Philosophy
  • (of a word or term) having only one possible meaning; unambiguous.

    a univocal set of instructions
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is a univocal lipogram, in which each chapter restricts itself to the use of a single vowel.
    • Although this ever-more-dominant Freudian reading of The Changeling was not univocal, the play was almost universally seen as a dark love story.
    • Seemingly then the first of agents, to which all agency is traced back, will be a univocal agent; and so the words used of God and creatures must be univocal.
    • The univocal word brings forth a world - however subsequently modified.
    • Different though they will be, each people's theoretical construction of an event ontology would be expected to be univocal.
 
 
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