univocal

Example Sentences

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Jacob Frank is a complicated character who escapes univocal judgment.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2022

So the songs are more univocal than doubleheaded, both in structure and in mood.

From Slate • Aug. 16, 2019

Strangely, whenever MacGregor tries to imagine 16th- and 17th-century attitudes he trusts the univocal evidence of governmental proclamations more readily than he accepts the multiple views articulated by Shakespeare.

From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2012

It is not the vehicles that they drive or the things strapped on the roof, but the univocal shade of muted grey.

From Salon • Oct. 14, 2012

Shakespeare is commended for his ambiguous is eaten, though in eating or an eating would have been not only correct in his day, but, where they would have come in his sentence, univocal.

From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Osmun, Thomas Embly