Both Uses of
equivocal
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- He recalled his own equivocal position in Belvedere, a free boy, a leader afraid of his own authority, proud and sensitive and suspicious, battling against the squalor of his life and against the riot of his mind.†
Chpt 2 *
- Their presence had made him diffident of himself when he was a muff in Clongowes and it had made him diffident of himself also while he had held his equivocal position in Belvedere.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(equivocal) unclear in meaning -- especially where opposing interpretations are reasonable (sometimes intentionally)