suppressio veri

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The Oxford theologian Conybeare gained the impression from this Parliamentary incident: 'That all Sir Edward Grey's answers to Mr. Keir Hardie's questions are examples of suppressio veri and suggestio falsi.'

From What Germany Thinks The War as Germans see it by Smith, Thomas F. A.

This part of the epistle, a cunning combination of the suppressio veri and suggestio falsi, was given to all the others who were in the plot to copy.

From Dr. Jolliffe's Boys by Feller, Frank

There yet remains, therefore, the dissatisfaction which is always likely to arise— not from the smallest allegatio falsi, but from the large suppressio veri.

From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas

But I feel convinced that the irascible Methuselah on the croquet ground was purposely and maliciously guilty of suppressio veri.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 11, 1917 by Various

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