Meanings
- uncountableThe quality or state of being univocal.
Hippolytus' wish for singleness and purity mirrors Phaedra's wish for uniivocacy of language.
2006, Gary S. Meltzer, Euripides and the Poetics of Nostalgia, page 882 more examples
The Aequivocall production of things under undiscerned principles makes a large part of generation, though they seem to hold a wide univocacy in their set and certain Originals, while almost every plant breeds its peculiar insect, most a Butterfly, moth or fly, wherein Oak seems to contain the largest seminality, while the Julus, Oak-apple, pill, woolly tuft, foraminous roundles upon the leaf, and grapes under ground make a Fly with some difference.
1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of CyrusThe univocacy of number and the intimate connection between number and existence should convince us that there is at least a very good reason to think that existence is univocal.
2014, Peter van Inwagen ·, Existence: Essays in Ontology, page 62
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