EGAVE

subreption

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Under Roman law, the act of giving false testimony.
  2. noun The act of obtaining a favour or grant by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.
  3. noun The act of obtaining a gift or favor by concealing the truth.
  4. 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.

Similar words

surreptition prevarication subornation testilying perjury detraction subterfuge defraudation abstraction reprobator

Often followed by

in of or is and can that

Word family

subreptions subreptitious subreptitiously

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