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noun
Under Roman law, the act of giving false testimony.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
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noun
The act of obtaining a favour or grant by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: Catholicism, Christianity
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noun
The act of obtaining a gift or favor by concealing the truth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: Scots law
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noun
The conflation of a condition under which it is possible to intuitively understand an object, and a condition under which an object can possibly exist; the confusion of knowing with experiencing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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History
From Latin subreptio, from subripere, subreptum (“to snatch or take away secretly”). Compare French subreption. See surreptitious, surreptition.
