subreption

Plural: subreptions

Noun

• Under Roman law, the act of giving false testimony.
• The act of obtaining a favour or grant by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.
• The act of obtaining a gift or favor by concealing the truth.
• The conflation of a condition under which it is possible to intuitively understand an object, and a condition under which an object can possibly exist; the confusion of knowing with experiencing.