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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadNoah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Prevarication
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(1):
(n.) The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.
(2):
(n.) A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
(3):
(n.) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
(4):
(n.) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.