univocal
IPA: junɪvˈoʊkʌɫ
noun
- A word having only one meaning.
- A document containing instances of only one vowel.
adjective
- Having only one possible meaning.
- Containing instances of only one vowel; univocalic.
- Having unison of sound, as the octave has in music.
- Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.
- Unequivocal; indubitable.
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Examples of "univocal" in Sentences
- First, there are analogical terms which are univocal in a broad sense of ˜univocal™.
- Transubstantiation is a far more "univocal" reading of the words "This is my body" than Zwingli's interpretation.
- But it was stated above that the word 'univocal' was applied to those things which had both name and definition in common.
- Very interesting, one might think—except that the book presents no evidence that any Protestant reformer actually espoused "univocal metaphysics," in the author's phrase.
- This distrust of totalizing mechanisms extends even to the author; thus postmodern writers often celebrate chance over craft and employ metafiction to undermine the author’s "univocal" control (the control of only one voice).
- Does Roger Bacon, in his best work, in which he treats of light and vision, express himself much more clearly than Aristotle when he says light is created by means of multiplying its luminous species, which action is called univocal and conformable to the agent?
- If we totally lose our ability to recognize and to understand irony, then we will be doomed to a kind of univocal discourse, which is alright I suppose for politicians 'speeches and perhaps for certain representatives of popular religion, but will leave us badly defrauded.
- All I will add in this short post is that the apostle Peter, as depicted in the Acts of the Apostles, seems not to agree with your depiction of the "univocal" expression of all New Testament figures, when he is presented as saying "I now realise how true it is that God does not show favoratism but accepts men from every nation who fear him and do what is right" Acts 10:34-35.
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