Both Uses of
equivocal
in
Emma
- Your meaning must be unequivocal; no doubts or demurs: and such expressions of gratitude and concern for the pain you are inflicting as propriety requires, will present themselves unbidden to your mind, I am persuaded.†
Chpt 1.7-8 *
- She did unfeignedly and unequivocally regret the inferiority of her own playing and singing.†
Chpt 2.9-10
Definition:
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(equivocal) unclear in meaning -- especially where opposing interpretations are reasonable (sometimes intentionally)