suppressio veri
Example Sentences
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But I feel convinced that the irascible Methuselah on the croquet ground was purposely and maliciously guilty of suppressio veri.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 11, 1917 by Various
There is some trace of complicity with those who are interested in a suppressio veri.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
The first, in which, at the time of writing, the suppressio veri was too strong for her conscience, had now become an honest letter, and sadly folding it she sent the missive on its way.
From Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy
I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi—the least omission may distort the whole picture.
From The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
Sir David Brewster's account of the matter, according to the German authorities, Gerhardt, Guhrauer, and others, is one-sided, and sins by suppressio veri, ignoring important documents, particularly Leibnitz's letter to Oldenburg, August 27, 1676.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 by Various
