equivoque
Example Sentences
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A similar equivoque upon the double meaning of "Deuk" in Scottish language supplied material for a poor woman's honest compliment to a benevolent Scottish nobleman.
From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay
He can always quiet the voice of conscience by an equivoque.
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by William Hogan
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 Frederick Reynolds
Angioletto took the equivoque with dignity, "I have perfect confidence in my wife, my lord Duke."
From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
One of the instances of the evils arising from the equivoque between faith and intellectual satisfaction or insight.
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
