equivoque

Example Sentences

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Calton was too much inwrapped in the contemplation of his happiness to see the equivoque between Hicks and himself; and threw himself back in his chair. 

From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Dickens, Charles

At the outset we must come to an understanding as to this word "image," and endeavour to free the word "vision" from all equivoque.

From The Principles of Success in Literature by Lewes, George Henry

Certain it was that Knight's disappointment at finding himself second or third in the field, at Elfride's momentary equivoque, and at her reluctance to be candid, brought him to the verge of cynicism.

From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Hardy, Thomas

There is an equivoque between trump and triumph.

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger

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