suppressio veri

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Mr. Brander Matthews points out, in answer to these grave charges, that Bluffing is merely a suppressio veri and that it requires a great deal of physical courage on the part of the player. 

From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar

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 Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

Throughout the whole of this document the suppressio veri reigns supreme. 

From Rome in 1860 by Dicey, Edward

There yet remains, therefore, the dissatisfaction which is always likely to arise— not from the smallest allegatio falsi, but from the large suppressio veri.

From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas

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