English Dictionary

prevarication

IPA（発音記号）

/pɹɪˌvæɹɪˈkeɪʃən/

名詞

古語 可算名詞 不可算名詞 古代ローマ 歴史的

(now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct. / Evasion of the truth. / A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.

日本語の意味

正しいこと、または正確なことから逸脱する行為 / 真実を回避する行為 / 公務執行上における秘密裏の不正行為

The committee condemned his prevarication as a dangerous deviation from the ethical standards they had sworn to uphold.

委員会は、彼の正しいことからの逸脱を、彼らが誓って守るべき倫理基準に対する重大な侵害だとして非難した。

意味（1）

(now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct.

意味（2）

Evasion of the truth.

Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.

意味（3）

A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.

意味（4）

(law, historical, Ancient Rome) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.

意味（5）

(law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

If it shall appeare, that they haue forfeited their Faith, or wronged their Client by preuarication.

prevarications （ plural ）