subreption

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SUBREP'TION, noun [Latin subreptio, from subrepo, to creep under.] The act of obtaining a favor by surprise or unfair representation, that is, by suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.
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