Both Uses of
equivocal
in
Mansfield Park
- When the company were moving into the ballroom, she found herself for the first time near Miss Crawford, whose eyes and smiles were immediately and more unequivocally directed as her brother's had been, and who was beginning to speak on the subject, when Fanny, anxious to get the story over, hastened to give the explanation of the second necklace: the real chain.†
Chpt 28
- On his side the inclination was stronger, on hers less equivocal.†
Chpt 37 *
Definition:
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(equivocal) unclear in meaning -- especially where opposing interpretations are reasonable (sometimes intentionally)