equivoque

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

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

It was not the first equivoque I had experienced; and this should have rendered me less confident of the evidence of my senses.

From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Reid, Mayne

But here again, to say nothing of the equivoque of ‘positive,’ we are met by a claim of pre-emption, the claim of Comte to associate the ‘ism’ specifically with his system, theoretic and practical.

From Rationalism by Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)

“Yes, we are near the dawning,” mocked the old man, with loud, relentless equivoque.

From The Advocate by Heavysege, Charles

The equivoque is in the use of the word 'dollar.'

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson