There were few of the party of the Heads who did not think every Tractarian a dishonest and perjured traitor, equivocating about his most solemn engagements, the ignorant slave of childish superstitions which he was conspiring to bring back.

The temptation to equivocate for pure perversity's sake was strong upon Elinor, and she yielded to it.

The pretence is, that we equivocate in talking of eternal generation.

The indirect answers which Quakers are often found to return to a question put to them may be explained, I think, without the vulgar assumption, that they are more given to evasion and equivocating than other people.

Because she felt herself unable to advocate in plain terms a thorough shutting up of her daughter,a protecting of her from the temptation of sin by absolute and prolonged sequestration,therefore she equivocated with him, pretending to think that he was desirous of sending his girl out to have her hair braided and herself arrayed in gold and pearls.