beg the question vs equivocate

beg the question

verb
  • To sidestep or fail to address a question. 

  • To raise or prompt a question. 

  • To engage in the logical fallacy of begging the question (petitio principii). 

equivocate

verb
  • To render equivocal or ambiguous. 

  • To speak using double meaning; to speak ambiguously, unclearly or doubtfully, with intent to deceive. 

How often have the words beg the question and equivocate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )