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PREVARICATION

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 311 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PREVARICATION  , a divergence from the truth, equivocation, quibbling, a want of

plain-dealing or straightforwardness, especially a deliberate misrepresentation by evasive answers, often used as a less offensive synonym for a lie . The Latin praevaricatio was specifically applied to the conduct in an
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action at law in which an advocate (praevaricator) in collusion with his opponent put up a
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bad case of defence .

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