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prevarications

prevarications is the plural of prevarication.

Meaning of prevarication

Noun

prevarication (countable and uncountable, plural prevarications)

  1. Evasion of the truth.
    • Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.
    Synonyms:
    deceit, evasiveness
  2. (archaic) Deviation from what is right or correct.
  3. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
  4. (Ancient-Rome, historical) 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.1628, Robert Le Grys, Argenis, translation of original by John Barclay

Questions about prevarications

What is prevarications the plural of?
Prevarications is the plural of prevarication.

Words near prevarications in the dictionary

  1. prevaricatest
  2. prevaricateth
  3. prevaricating
  4. prevaricatingly
  5. prevarication
  6. prevarications
  7. prevaricative
  8. prevaricator
  9. prevaricators
  10. prevaricatory
  11. prevaricocelectomy

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