equivoke
- a variation of equivoque.
Example Sentences
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From this continual equivoke of ancient language, proceeds every mistake.
From The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature by Volney, C.-F. (Constantin-François)
This equivoke checked Dr. Gowdy for an instant.
From Under the Skylights by Fuller, Henry Blake
He felt the equivoke, looked awkward and reddish, but soon returned to the attack by saying that he thought Burns was as good as Shakspeare.
From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles
Marian, arrayed as a boy, and pretending to be her brother Walter, has been present at this combat, as a spectator, and a sparkling scene of equivoke, mischief, and sentiment ensues between Marian and Robin.
From Shadows of the Stage by Winter, William
The wit of the performance was made to consist in quibble and equivoke, and in the misuse of language, after the fashion, but without the refinement, of Mrs. Partington.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various
