subreption
/səˈbrɛpʃn/noun
1Misrepresentation or suppression of the truth or facts; an act or instance of this.
2 Ecclesiastical Law. Suppression of the truth or concealment of facts in order to obtain a dispensation, etc.
- Contrasted with obreption..
3 Scottish Law. Suppression of the truth in order to obtain gifts of escheat, etc. historical after 18th cent.
- Contrasted with obreption..
4 Philosophy. In Kantian philosophy: the confusion of sensory elements in experience with conceptual elements belonging to understanding and reason, especially as leading to the improper application of concepts belonging to subjective experience to the objective world of things in themselves; an instance of this.
Origin
Late 16th century. From classical Latin subreptiōn-, subreptiō act of taking secretly, stealing (2nd cent. a.d. in Apuleius), in post-classical Latin also action of snatching away by death, deceit, trickery from subrept-, past participial stem of subripere + -iō.