multivocalityn.

1963 Philos. Q. 13 117 If our account is not to be largely irrelevant to the facts, we must provide definition-schemas for kinds of meaning-statements which reflect the fact of multivocality.

1980 P. Schouls Imposition of Method ii. 31 He [sc. Descartes] speaks of ‘human reason’, ‘natural reason’, ‘the pure light of reason’. No suggestions about multivocality seem to be expressed in the use of such qualifying or otherwise associated terms.

2000 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 105 1447 This multivocality was especially evident in the phrase ‘state of war’ (Staet van Oorlogh), which meant condition of war and war budget.