Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Suppression of truth; in law, an undue concealment or non-disclosure of facts and circumstances which one party is under a legal or equitable obligation to communicate, and which the other party has a right—not merely in conscience, but juris et de jure—to know. Minor. Compare
suggestio falsi .
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- noun A
misrepresentation of thetruth by theomission orsuppression of certain keyfacts ; a lie of omission. Comparesuggestio falsi .
Etymologies
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Latin: suppressiō ("a pressing down”, “suppression") + vērī (“of reality”, genitive singular form of vērum, “reality”, “fact”) = “a pressing down of reality” ≈ “suppression of the truth”
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chained_bear commented on the word suppressio veri
"Dissimulation was nothing remotely new to Maturin: to it he owed his continuing existence. Yet this particular suppressio veri was by no means his province."
--Patrick O'Brian, Blue at the Mizzen, 34
March 27, 2008