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Word Meanings - DEFRAUDMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Privation by fraud; defrauding. Milton.

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  • DEFRAUD
    To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing
  • DEFRAUDATION
    The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud. Sir T. Browne.
  • FRAUDFUL
    Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things. I. Taylor. -- Fraud"ful*ly, adv.
  • FRAUDULENTLY
    In a fraudulent manner.
  • DEFRAUDMENT
    Privation by fraud; defrauding. Milton.
  • MILTONIAN
    Miltonic. Lowell.
  • MILTONIC
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
  • FRAUDULENCE; FRAUDULENCY
    The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness. Hooker.
  • DEFRAUDER
    One who defrauds; a cheat; an embezzler; a peculator.
  • PRIVATION
    1. The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation. Bacon. 2. The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need;
  • FRAUDULENT
    1. Using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest. 2. Characterized by,, founded on, or proceeding from, fraund; as, a fraudulent bargain. He, with serpent tongue, . . . His fraudulent temptation thus began. Milton. 3. Obtained or performed
  • FRAUDLESS
    Free from fraud. -- Fraud"less*ly, adv. -- Fraud"less*ness, n.
  • FRAUD
    An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another. 3. A trap or snare. To draw the proud King Ahab into fraud. Milton. Constructive fraud , an act, statement, or omission which operates
  • HAMILTON PERIOD
    A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
  • YAZOO FRAUD
    The grant by the State of Georgia, by Act of Jan. 7, 1795, of 35,000,000 acres of her western territory, for 0,000, to four companies known as the Yazoo Companies from the region granted ; -- commonly so called, the act being known as the Yazoo
  • DEPRIVATION
    the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order. (more info) 1. The act of

 

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