suppressio veri

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If this present discussion had not arisen, and the "Advice, entire," had not been given by Hutchinson, the suppressio veri, perpetrated by Cotton Mather, would, perhaps, have become permanent history.

From Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply by Upham, Charles Wentworth

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.

Throughout the whole of this document the suppressio veri reigns supreme. 

From Rome in 1860 by Dicey, Edward

"He knows all about it," she said—and with no consciousness of a suppressio veri here.

From Mary Wollaston by Webster, Henry Kitchell

When, however, Palikao was willing to speak he often did so untruthfully, repeatedly adding the suggestio falsi to the suppressio veri.

From My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred