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Subreption definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SUBREP'TION, n. [L. subreptio, from subrepo, to creep under.]
The act of obtaining a favor by surprise or unfair representation, that is, by suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Late Latin subreption-, subreptio, from Latin, act of stealing, from subripere, surripere to take away secretly — more at surreptitious Date: 1600 a deliberate misrepresentation; also an inference drawn from it • subreptitious adjective • subreptitiously adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. formal the obtaining of a thing by surprise or misrepresentation. Etymology: L subreptio purloining f. subripere (as SUB-, rapere snatch)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Subreption Sub*rep"tion, n. [L. subreptio, fr. subripere, subreptum, to snatch or take away secretly: cf. F. subreption. See Surreptitious.] The act of obtaining a favor by surprise, or by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts. --Bp. Hall.