equivocation
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Equivocation Bill Cain’s new comedy about a playwright named “Shagspeare” caught up in political intrigue in 17th-century London.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2014
I cannot help pausing a moment, to admire how Equivocation triumphed throughout this age.
From Priests, Women, and Families by Michelet, Jules
Francis Tresam.—From his examination relative to the book on Equivocation.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 283, November 17, 1827 by Various
"Equivocation will not serve you in this case, sir," said the queen, with an austere dignity.
From The Midnight Queen by Fleming, May Agnes
A Treatise upon Equivocation," which was altered by Father Garnet into "A treatise against Lying & fraudule't dissimulatio'.
From The Identification of the Writer of the Anonymous Letter to Lord Monteagle in 1605 by Morgan, George Blacker
Vocabulary lists containing equivocation
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Analyzing Arguments: From Reading to Writing (Chapter 3)
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Speech and Debate
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