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equivocator|iːˈkwɪvəkeɪtə(r)|
[a. late L. æquivocātor, agent-n. f. æquivocāre: see equivocate and -or.]
One who equivocates.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 102 The Iesuites are noted..to be too hardie æquivocators. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. i. ii. (1676) 26/2 The second rank is of Lyars, and æquivocators, as Apollo Pythius, and the like. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 304 He was..a Sycophant, an Equivocator. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. xv. 25 You little equivocator! What do you mean by hardly? 1864J. H. Newman Apol. App. 76 But an equivocator uses them in a received sense, though there is another received sense. |