Equivocated vs Equivocates - What's the difference?
equivocated | equivocates |
(equivocate)
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.
As verbs the difference between equivocated and equivocates
is that equivocated is (equivocate) while equivocates is (equivocate).equivocated
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Verb
(head)equivocate
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(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. -.