Definition of PREVARICATION

prevarication

Meanings

Plural: prevarications

Noun

  • a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
  • intentionally vague or ambiguous
  • the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
  • Deviation from what is right or correct.
  • Evasion of the truth.
  • A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
  • The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
  • A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

Origin / Etymology

From Anglo-Norman prevaricassion, Middle French prevarication, and their source, Latin praevāricātiō (“collusion with an opponent; transgression; deceit”), from the stem of praevāricor.

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