equivoque

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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

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

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

Without an equivoque, I should look with a very ominous dissatisfaction on the "Elysian fields" that lie beyond.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker

I tell thee, that if thou intendest an equivoque, the Greek word whereby thou affirmest that Croesus should overthrow a great empire, was ill-chosen; and that it could signify nothing but Croesus conquering Cyrus.

From Thaumaturgia by Oxonian, An