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prevarication
/pɹɪˌvæɹ.ɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
noun 5
Collocations
2ADJ.
white
PREVARICATION + NOUN
avail, hall, vvhere
Definitions
noun
1
Evasion of the truth.
Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.
The trumpet—vvill it ſound? the curtain riſe? And ſhow th' auguſt tribunal of the ſkies, / VVhere no prevarication ſhall avail, / VVhere eloquence and artifice ſhall fail, […]
2
Deviation from what is right or correct.
3
A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
4
The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
5
A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
If it shall appeare, that they haue forfeited their Faith, or wronged their Client by preuarication.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
noun — intentionally vague or ambiguous
- equivocation
- evasiveness
noun — a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
301
Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.
Wiktionary02
The trumpet—vvill it ſound? the curtain riſe? And ſhow th' auguſt tribunal of the ſkies, / VVhere no prevarication ſhall avail, / VVhere eloquence and artifice ſhall fail, […]
Wiktionary03
The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as me
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