equivocator

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  1. One who equivocates; a prevaricator. Knock, knock: who's there i' the other devil's name? 'Faith, here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale; … yet could not equivocate to heaven; O, come in, equivocator. Shak., Macbeth, ii. 3. A secret liar or equivocator is such a one as by mental reservations, and other tricks, deceives him to whom he speaks, being lawfully called to deliver all the truth. Fuller, Holy State, p. 390.

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  • Edward (Ted) Kennedy is a bloviating equivocator with all the courage of a sponge, with which he also shares a remarkable ability for soaking up liquids. —  Knowledge is Power
  • "Faith, here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale, who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to Heaven." —  MailTribune.com Latest Headlines
  • Rep. Wasserman-Schultz, of course, has been playing the equivocator game for a while now; from the —  RedState
  • He's a good equivocator, and certainly will be around the central mystery of the show. —  Brad Ideas - Comments
  • In a world of mounting great-power contestation, the master equivocator has both shackled his own country to the only contestant certain to be —  open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
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  1. from Middle Latin æquivocator, from æquivocari, have the same sound: see equivocate.
 

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