MEANING
Having one clear meaning, or used consistently in the same sense.
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Words that belong together
- a univocal term
- a univocal reading
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The argument required a univocal use of the central term.
She found no univocal reading that accounted for both passages.
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Word forms
- Base
- univocal
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: Relational sense classification; comparative more univocal only in an explicitly graded interpretation. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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