subreption

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
18
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/sʌbˈɹɛpʃən/

Definition of subreption

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, historical, uncountable)Under Roman law, the act of giving false testimony.
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noun

  1. (countable, historical, uncountable)Under Roman law, the act of giving false testimony.
  2. (countable, uncountable)The act of obtaining a favour or grant by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.
    “lest there should be any subreption in this sacred business, it is ordered, that these Ordinations should be no other than solemn”
  3. (countable, uncountable)The act of obtaining a gift or favor by concealing the truth.
  4. (countable, uncountable)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.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Latin subreptio, from subripere, subreptum (“to snatch or take away secretly”). Compare French subreption. See surreptitious, surreptition.

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