suggestio falsi

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This part of the epistle, a cunning combination of the suppressio veri and suggestio falsi, was given to all the others who were in the plot to copy.

From Dr. Jolliffe's Boys by Feller, Frank

But, speaking generally, where the translator has not to intimate stanzas—where he has on the contrary to intimate that there are none—rhyme seems at first sight an intrusion and a suggestio falsi.

From Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus

In it there is throughout a suppressio veri, a suggestio falsi, and scarcely a page that does not bear false witness.

From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Inman, Thomas

When, however, Palikao was willing to speak he often did so untruthfully, repeatedly adding the suggestio falsi to the suppressio veri.

From My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

Mere concealment is not actionable unless it amounts not only to suppressio veri, but to suggestio falsi.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various