suppressio veri
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Hardy, Thomas
Sacrilege in ignorance, fraud, suppressio veri, and perjury, were punished by enforced compensation, and the addition of a fifth part of the value concerned in the matter to the priest, or to the person wronged.
From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various
He could not even be induced to adopt the suppressio veri.
From Canadian Notabilities, Volume 1 by Dent, John Charles
