equivoque
Example Sentences
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Hush!—here's the old lady! keep dying, as before, and we'll effect the business—more equivoque!
From The Dramatist; or Stop Him Who Can! A Comedy, in Five Acts by Reynolds, Frederick
Lockhart calls them “a style of equivoque which could never seriously be misunderstood.”
From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by Gerard, John
This is to be regretted—for it is a mischievous equivoque, to make 'good' a synonyme of 'pleasant,' or even the genus of which pleasure is a species.
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Nor is the equivoque remedied by defining representation as a psychic product of secondary order in relation to sensation, which should occupy the first place.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto
My dear mother's countenance fell, and I could hardly pursue my wicked equivoque any further.
From Satanstoe by Cooper, James Fenimore
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.