Equivocate vs Conflation - What's the difference?
equivocate | conflation |
To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity.
To render equivocal or ambiguous.
(countable) A blowing or fusing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.
(countable) A blend or fusion, especially a composite reading or text formed by combining the material of two or more texts into a single text.
As a verb equivocate
is to use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity.As a noun conflation is
(countable) a blowing or fusing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.equivocate
English
(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(equivocat)- All that Garnet had to say for him was that he supposed he meant to equivocate . -.
- He equivocated his vow by a mental reservation. -.
