prevarication

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 prĭ-văr′ĭ-kā′shən

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Evasion of the truth. countable,uncountable
    — Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.
  2. Deviation from what is right or correct. archaic,countable,uncountable
  3. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office. countable,uncountable
  4. The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution. Ancient-Rome,countable,historical,uncountable
  5. A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it. countable,uncountable
    — If it shall appeare, that they haue forfeited their Faith, or wronged their Client by preuarication.

词形变化

prevarications plural

词汇关系

相关词
prevaricate prevaricator lie equivocate

词源

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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