ETYMOLOGY
from Latin aequivocantem, present participle of aequivocare, from aequivocus (ambiguous)
EXAMPLE
“… to trie battaile with the Medes: yea, and and answere by Oracle later than these before cited, which verily was true, but no lesse ambiguous and equivocant, …”
From: The Roman History Of Ammianus Marcellinus
Translated by Philemon Holland, 1609
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