equivoque

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It is easy to see how the Elizabethan tendency to word-quibble and equivoque would help to give currency to the Latin form.

From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Black, Ebenezer Charlton

He can always quiet the voice of conscience by an equivoque.

From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William

Lockhart calls them “a style of equivoque which could never seriously be misunderstood.”

From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by Gerard, John

The equivoque arises precisely from the word "association."

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto

Hush!—here's the old lady! keep dying, as before, and we'll effect the business—more equivoque!

From The Dramatist; or Stop Him Who Can! A Comedy, in Five Acts by Reynolds, Frederick