subreptionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin subreptio, from subripere, subreptum (“to snatch or take away secretly”). Compare French subreption. See surreptitious, surreptition.

発音

• IPA: /sʌbˈɹɛpʃən/

名詞

subreption (countable and uncountable, plural subreptions)

1. (historical) Under Roman law, the act of giving false testimony.
2. (Catholicism) The act of obtaining a favour or grant by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.
   • 1644, Bishop Joseph Hall, A Modest Offer:

     lest there should be any subreption in this sacred business, it is ordered, that these Ordinations should be no other than solemn

3. (Scots law) The act of obtaining a gift or favor by concealing the truth.
4. (philosophy) The conflation of a condition under which it is possible to intuitively understand an object, and a condition under which an object can possibly exist; the confusion of knowing with experiencing.

等位語

• obreption
• surreptition