equivocate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To render equivocal or ambiguous.

   He equivocated his vow by a mental reservation.

From Late Middle English equivocaten, from Medieval Latin aequivocātus, perfect passive participle of aequivocō (“to be called by the same name”), from Late Latin aequivocus (“ambiguous, equivocal”). Compare French équivoque.

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