different between fabrication vs prevarication
fabrication
English
Etymology
From Middle French fabrication, from Latin fabricatio
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /fæb???ke???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
fabrication (countable and uncountable, plural fabrications)
- (uncountable) The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture
- the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government
- (countable) That which is fabricated; a falsehood
- The story is doubtless a fabrication.
- (cooking) The act of cutting up an animal carcass as preparation for cooking; butchery.
Related terms
- fabricate
- fabricating
- fabric
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa.b?i.ka.sj??/
Noun
fabrication f (plural fabrications)
- manufacture, manufacturing
- fabrication
- production
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prevarication
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman prevaricassion, Middle French prevarication, and their source, Latin praev?ric?ti? (“collusion with an opponent; transgression; deceit”), from the stem of praev?ricor.
Pronunciation
- (non-merged vowel) IPA(key): /p???væ???ke???n/
- (merged vowel) IPA(key): /p???væ???ke???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
prevarication (countable and uncountable, plural prevarications)
- (now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.
- Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.
- Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.
- 1779, William Cowper, Retirement
- The august tribunal of the skies, where no prevarication shall avail.
- 2012, The Economist, Oct 6th 2012, Charlemagne: Mysterious Mariano
- Mr Rajoy frustrates many with his prevarication over a fresh euro-zone bail-out, which now comes with a conditional promise from the European Central Bank (ECB) to help bring down Spain’s stifling borrowing costs.
- A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
- (law, historical, Ancient Rome) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
- (law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowell to this entry?)
Related terms
- prevaricate
- prevaricator
Translations
See also
- lie
- equivocate
Further reading
- Prevarication in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Middle French
Noun
prevarication f (plural prevarications)
- prevarication (deviation from what is right)
Descendants
- ? English: prevarication
- French: prévarication
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