deceit vs equivocation

deceit

noun
  • The state of being deceitful or deceptive. 

  • An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick. 

  • An act of deceiving someone. 

  • The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury. 

equivocation

noun
  • The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, possibly intentionally and with the aim of misleading. 

  • A logical fallacy resulting from the use of multiple meanings of a single expression. 

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