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Equivocal vs Dilogy - What's the difference?

equivocal | dilogy |

As nouns the difference between equivocal and dilogy

is that equivocal is a word or expression capable of different meanings; an ambiguous term; an equivoque while dilogy is or equivocal speech or discourse.

As an adjective equivocal

is having two or more equally applicable meanings; capable of double or multiple interpretation; ambiguous; uncertain.

equivocal

English

(Webster 1913)

Alternative forms

* (rare)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A word or expression capable of different meanings; an ambiguous term; an equivoque.

    • Synonyms

    * double entendre

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having two or more equally applicable meanings; capable of double or multiple interpretation; ambiguous; uncertain.
    • equivocal''' words; an '''equivocal sentence
  • * Jeffrey
    • For the beauties of Shakespeare are not of so dim or equivocal a nature as to be visible only to learned eyes.
  • Capable of being ascribed to different motives, or of signifying opposite feelings, purposes, or characters; deserving to be suspected.
    • His actions are equivocal .
  • * Milton
    • equivocal repentances
  • Uncertain, as an indication or sign; doubtful, incongruous.
  • * Burke
    • How equivocal a test.

    Synonyms

    * ambiguous, doubtful, uncertain, indeterminate

    Antonyms

    * unequivocal * (l)

    Derived terms

    * equivocalness

    Related terms

    * equivocation * equivoque

    External links

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    dilogy

    English

    Noun

    (dilogies)
  • or equivocal speech or discourse.
  • of a word or phrase.
  • A series of two related works
  • *1885 , The Journal of Hellenic studies: Volume 6 , page 167
  • *:why tragedy took the form of a trilogy — not a dilogy , tetralogy, or single drama
  • *1983 , Studies in Aeschylus , Reginald Pepys Winnington-Ingram, page 189
  • *:another school of thought, for which Purphoros'' is a mirage, a mere doublet of ''Purkaeus , and there were never more than two linked Prometheus plays -- as it were a dilogy
  • *2012 , A New Companion to the Gothic , David Punter, Page 71
  • *:Most notable of these are his “dilogy” The Salamander'' (1841) and ''The Cosmorama (1839)