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- noun Plural form of
equivoque .
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Examples
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Do you understand these logomachies, these equivoques?
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What incongruities and equivoques are to be found in all languages!
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The most singular instance of this abuse of words — these voluntary equivoques — these misunderstandings which have caused so many quarrels — is the Chinese
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Encouraged by the success of these efforts, which tickled the imagination of Jolter, and drew smiles (as he imagined) of approbation from our hero, he sported in many other equivoques of the same nature; and at dinner, told the physician, that he was like the root of the tongue, as being cursedly down in the mouth.
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“Nay, I am the thick one and thou art the thin!” resumes the first speaker, and so on till they come to equivoques which will not bear a literal English translation.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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For many times, in their interpretation, right witty, learned, and ingenious men have been deceived through amphibologies, equivoques, and obscurity of words, no less than by the brevity of their sentences.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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For many times, in their interpretation, right witty, learned, and ingenious men have been deceived through amphibologies, equivoques, and obscurity of words, no less than by the brevity of their sentences.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Continuing to correct these errors, or to make clear equivoques, we will note that the _symbol_ has sometimes been given as essence of art.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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The negations of this thesis are all founded on equivoques and errors.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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The first of the equivoques is implied by those who observe that one can likewise think with geometrical figures, algebraical numbers, ideographic signs, without a single word, even pronounced silently and almost insensibly within one.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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