suppressio veri

Example Sentences

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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

Insincerity, disingenuousness, shiftiness, trickery, duplicity, chicanery, evasion, intrigue, suppressio veri, suggestio falsi, fraud, mendacity, treachery, hypocrisy, cant,—their name is Legion.

From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Holmes, Edmond

In which case, my friend, Miss Banks’s suppressio veri was, in my judgment, quite venial.

From The Jervaise Comedy by Beresford, J. D. (John Davys)

Mr. Brander Matthews points out, in answer to these grave charges, that Bluffing is merely a suppressio veri and that it requires a great deal of physical courage on the part of the player. 

From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar

I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi—the least omission may distort the whole picture.

From The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) by Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson