suppressio veri
Example Sentences
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This suppressio veri partly accounts for the persistence of the French deputies in their resolves, which prevented the friendly explanations undoubtedly desired by Pitt and Maret.
From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose
He could not even be induced to adopt the suppressio veri.
From Canadian Notabilities, Volume 1 by John Charles Dent
Mere concealment is not actionable unless it amounts not only to suppressio veri, but to suggestio falsi.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
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 John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
"He knows all about it," she said—and with no consciousness of a suppressio veri here.
From Mary Wollaston by Henry Kitchell Webster
