Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A calculated misrepresentation through concealment of the facts.
- noun An inference drawn from such a misrepresentation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of obtaining a favor by surprise or by suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.
- noun In Scots law, the obtaining of gifts of escheat, etc., by concealing the truth. Compare
obreption , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of obtaining a favor by surprise, or by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of obtaining a favour by surprise, or by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The argument Kant offers is excruciating, but the essential point is that, just as the idea of the soul involved the subreption of the hypostatized consciousness, so too, the idea of the ens realissimum is generated by both a subrepted principle and a hypostatization.
Kant's Critique of Metaphysics Grier, Michelle 2007
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The term “subreption” refers to a fallacy that specifically involves the surreptitious substitution of different kinds of terms and concepts.
Kant's Critique of Metaphysics Grier, Michelle 2007
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If, on the other hand, silence had been observed concerning something that essentially changed the state of the case, it is called subreption.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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In its effects subreption is equivalent to obreption (q.v.), which consists in a positive allegation of what is false.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Rescripts obtained by obreption or subreption are null and void when the motive cause of the rescript is affected by them.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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For the effect of subreption on the validity of grants see Rescripts.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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For this, and in general for the information which should accompany the petition, in order that a dispensation be valid, see below apropos of obreption and subreption in rescripts of dispensation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Moreover, these dispensations are supposed to be given motu proprio and with certain knowledge, from which it follows that they are not vitiated by obreption or by subreption.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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When a supplica is affected (in a material point) by obreption or subreption it becomes necessary to ask for a so-called
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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And after having in this way, quietly and by subreption, introduced this its definition of the term "_bourgeoisie_," the indictment goes on to formulate its final charge as follows:
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Kuno Francke 1892
reesetee commented on the word subreption
1. A calculated misrepresentation through concealment of the facts.
2. An inference drawn from such a misrepresentation.
August 20, 2007
jmjarmstrong commented on the word subreption
JM is very open about subreption.
March 24, 2011
qms commented on the word subreption
Two years of news and reflection
Regarding the Russian connection
Has still not induced
The foolish seduced
To see any sign of subreption.
See also comments at obreptitious.
January 19, 2019