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],
"links": [
[
"Deviation",
"deviation"
],
[
"right",
"right"
],
[
"correct",
"correct"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic, now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "transgression"
},
{
"word": "perversion"
}
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office."
],
"links": [
[
"secret",
"secret"
],
[
"abuse",
"abuse"
],
[
"exercise",
"exercise"
],
[
"public office",
"public office"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with historical senses",
"en:Ancient Rome",
"en:Law"
],
"glosses": [
"The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution."
],
"links": [
[
"Ancient Rome",
"Ancient Rome"
],
[
"law",
"law#English"
],
[
"collusion",
"collusion"
],
[
"informer",
"informer"
],
[
"defendant",
"defendant"
],
[
"sham",
"sham"
],
[
"prosecution",
"prosecution"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Ancient Rome, law, historical) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution."
],
"tags": [
"Ancient-Rome",
"countable",
"historical",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"law"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Law"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
86,
99
]
],
"ref": "1628, Robert Le Grys, Argenis, translation of original by John Barclay:",
"text": "If it shall appeare, that they haue forfeited their Faith, or wronged their Client by preuarication.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it."
],
"links": [
[
"law",
"law#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"law"
]
}
],
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{
"enpr": "prĭ-văr′ĭ-kā′shən",
"note": "non-merged vowel"
},
{
"ipa": "/pɹɪˌvæɹ.ɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/",
"note": "non-merged vowel"
},
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},
{
"enpr": "prĭ-văr′ə-kā′shən",
"note": "merged vowel"
},
{
"ipa": "/pɹɪˌvæɹ.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/",
"note": "merged vowel"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪʃən"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "šikalkavene",
"sense": "deviation from what is right or correct",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "шикалкавене"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "deviation from what is right or correct",
"word": "overtreding"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "deviation from what is right or correct",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "prévarication"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "deviation from what is right or correct",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Verfehlung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "deviation from what is right or correct",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Übertretung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "deviation from what is right or correct",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Verstoß"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "deviation from what is right or correct",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "prevaricación"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "izvǎrtane",
"sense": "deceit, evasiveness",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "извъртане"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "deceit, evasiveness",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "uitvlucht"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "deceit, evasiveness",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "draaierij"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "deceit, evasiveness",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "subterfuge"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "deceit, evasiveness",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "faux-fuyant"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "deceit, evasiveness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "échappatoire"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "deceit, evasiveness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dérobade"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "deceit, evasiveness",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Ausflucht"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "deceit, evasiveness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Tatsachenverdrehung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "deceit, evasiveness",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Wahrheitsverzerrung"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"lang_code": "no",
"sense": "deceit, evasiveness",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "utflukt"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"lang_code": "ota",
"roman": "yalan",
"sense": "deceit, evasiveness",
"word": "یالان"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"lang_code": "pdt",
"sense": "deceit, evasiveness",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Jeheichel"
}
],
"word": "prevarication"
}
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