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/prəvˌɛrəkˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Prevarication n.

The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing. "The august tribunal of the skies, where no prevarication shall avail."

A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.

(Law)

(a)

(Roman Law) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.

(b)

(Common Law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

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Etymology of 'Prevarication'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Queen, The Church of England's glory, Another face of things was seen, And I became a Tory; Occasional Conformists base, I damn'd their moderation, And thought the Church in danger was, By such prevarication. ...

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— The Heart's Kingdom • Maria Thompson Daviess

... her what I thought of the old auntie, though I could not repress a smile at her frankness, which pleased me more than prevarication would ...

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... Albinia left them together. She watched anxiously, and hurried after Mr. Kendal into the study, where his manner showed her not to be unwelcome as the sharer of his trouble. 'I do not know what to do,' he said, dejectedly. 'I can make nothing of him. It is all prevarication and sulkiness! I do not think he felt one word that ...

— The Young Step-Mother • Charlotte M. Yonge

... disgusted did Frobisher become at all this delay and prevarication that he went back to the Su-chen, selected some twenty of the strongest members of his crew, and himself took them up to the magazine with a number of hand-wagons which he had collected, under much voluble protest, en route. Then, having found the required pattern of cartridge, ...

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