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univocal.

Adjective
Formal
MEANING

Having one clear meaning, or used consistently in the same sense.

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  • 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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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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