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Definition of Equivocations
1. equivocation [n] - See also: equivocation
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1. The History of the Variations of the Protestant Churches by Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (1842)
"The first called the Sacramen- tarians a double-tongued faction,* on account of
their equivocations ; and said, " They made a devilish game with the words ..."
2. Rules for the Interpretation of Deeds. With a Glossary by Howard Warburton Elphinstone, Robert Frederick Norton, James William Clark (1889)
".Ambiguities and inaccuracies defined and distinguished: Patent ambiguities:
Ambiguity determined by election: equivocations : Direct evidence of intention: ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"Despairs, equivocations, Definition, Parties and Parts affected. THEBE be many
kinds of desperation, whereof some be holy, some unholy, ..."
4. Handbook of the Law of Wills by George Enos Gardner, Walter Thomas Dunmore (1916)
"equivocations—EXTRINSIC EVIDENCE OF INTENTION 107. Where the object of the
testator's bounty, or the subject-matter upon which the will purports to operate, ..."
5. A Treatise on Deeds by Robert Frederick Norton, Robert Hay Dun, Digby Latimer Francis Koe (1906)
"... equivocations—INACCURACIES. Ambiguities (Patent and Latent) and Inaccuracies
Defined ami Distinguished : Deed roid /m• Uncertainty : No Evidence of ..."
6. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"To discover his equivocations.—Chap. 10. About obligation.—Chap. 11. According to
him there can be no Ethic.—Chap. 12. Judgment on his politics, ..."
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