prevarication
Bedeutung (Englisch)
- (countable, uncountable) Evasion of the truth.
- (archaic, countable, uncountable) Deviation from what is right or correct.
- (countable, uncountable) A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
- (Ancient-Rome, countable, historical, uncountable) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
- (countable, uncountable) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
Konzepte
Ausflucht
Flunkerei
Anwaltstreubruch
Wahrheitsverzerrung
Synonyme
mistatement
Übersetzungen
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/pɹɪˌvæɹɪˈkeɪʃən/
Etymologie (Englisch)
Borrowed from Latin praevāricātiō (“collusion with an opponent; duplicity, deceit; violation of duty, transgression”, literally “stepping out of line”), from praevāricor (“to walk crookedly; go astray; transgress”) + -tās. The virtually obsolete sense of deviation or transgression may have been influenced by an earlier stage of borrowing via Middle English prevaricacioun, prevaricacion (“deviation from the law; transgression”) from Anglo-Norman prevaricaciun (“transgression, violation of correct conduct”).
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