equivoque

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Angioletto took the equivoque with dignity, "I have perfect confidence in my wife, my lord Duke."

From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

The meaning now is, 'I will end my task faithfully, with an equivoque on 'I will end La Busse, or the play containing him as a character, faithfully.'

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

The mortified dramatist gave up play-writing forever, or, as he contemptuously expressed it, "made a hearty abjuration of the stage and all its heresies of pun, equivoque, and clap-trap."

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Harper, Various (magazine)

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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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