equivocator
(iːˈkwɪvəkeɪtə(r))
[a. late L. æquivocātor, agent-n. f. æquivocāre: see equivocate and -or.]
One who equivocates.
| 1599 Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 102 The Iesuites are noted..to be too hardie æquivocators. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. i. ii. (1676) 26/2 The second rank is of Lyars, and æquivocators, as Apollo Pythius, and the like. 1691 Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 304 He was..a Sycophant, an Equivocator. 1741 Richardson Pamela (1824) I. xv. 25 You little equivocator! What do you mean by hardly? 1864 J. H. Newman Apol. App. 76 But an equivocator uses them in a received sense, though there is another received sense. |