equivocally

Meanings

• having or expressing more than one meaning or interpretation

  - "The sentence 'I meant to say I love you, not I hate you' is an example of a statement that is equivocal."
  - "The phrase 'Your eyes are blue, yet I know they can change color' is an example of a sentence that expresses the idea that something can have more than one meaning or interpretation."

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Variants

List of all variants of equivocally that leads to same result
equivocal , equivocalities , equivocality , equivocally , equivocalness , equivocalnesses

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Etymology

origin and the way in which meanings have changed throughout history.

From Latin equivocare, meaning 'to speak or answer in a way that is ambiguous or unclear'.

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Quotes

Quotes by authors and personalities

1. When I go to galleries to see new art.  … I don't care about what I see unless it holds my eye, and that is an almost involuntary experience; but once something has that hold on me—even in a tentative, "equivocal" way—other factors come into play, and I find myself reaching for analogies, ideas, theories.

   - Jed Perl,{it}New Republic{/it},20 Mar. 2000

2. He [Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec] frequented the sleazy underworld of Paris, but moved in top circles too, and by virtue of his "equivocal" status as a landed gentleman-turned-bohemian artist, was sufficiently an outsider to be a detached observer of the diverse social classes among whom he ranged so freely.

   - Elizabeth Cowling,{it}Times Literary Supplement{/it},8 Nov. 1991

3. … in the past, photographs of real situations in color have invited a sense of ambiguity, an element of distrust on the part of viewers, perhaps because the saturated dyes of color film seem to have an "equivocal" relationship to the harsher realities of social conditions.

   - Naomi Rosenblum,{it}A World History of Photography{/it},1989

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