noun · countable / uncountable · rare

prevarication

prevarication · prevarications

Ausflucht, Tatsachenverdrehung, Wahrheitsverzerrung

Evasion of the truthEvasion of the truth.

/pɹɪˌvæɹ.ɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

Meaning

5 senses

(countable, uncountable)Evasion of the truth.
Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.
Ausflucht, Tatsachenverdrehung, Wahrheitsverzerrung
the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
(countable, uncountable)A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
(Ancient Rome, countable, historical, uncountable)The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
(countable, uncountable)A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)Deviation from what is right or correct.
Verfehlung, Übertretung, Verstoß

Translations

6 languages

Deutsch

By meaning 2

deceit, evasiveness:

deviation from what is right or correct:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin praevāricātiō (“collusion with an opponent; duplicity, deceit; violati

Borrowed from Latin praevāricātiō (“collusion with an opponent; duplicity, deceit; violation of duty, transgression”, literally “stepping out of line”), from praevāricor (“to walk crookedly; go astray; transgress”) + -tās. The virtually obsolete sense of deviation or transgression may have been influenced by an earlier stage of borrowing via Middle English prevaricacioun, prevaricacion (“deviation from the law; transgression”) from Anglo-Norman prevaricaciun (“transgression, violation of correct conduct”).

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