Concoction vs Prevarication - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Digestion (of food etc.).
*, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.260:
The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.
A mixture prepared in such a way.
Something made-up, an invention.
(obsolete, figurative) The act of digesting in the mind; rumination.
(obsolete, medicine) Abatement of a morbid process, such as fever, and return to a normal condition.
(obsolete) The act of perfecting or maturing.
Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.
Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.
* Cowper
* 2012 , The Economist, Oct 6th 2012,
A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
(legal, historical, Ancient Rome) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
(legal) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
Concoction is a related term of prevarication.
As nouns the difference between concoction and prevarication
is that concoction is (obsolete) digestion (of food etc) while prevarication is maladministration.concoction
English
Noun
(en noun)- [Sorrow] hinders concoction , refrigerates the heart, takes away stomach, colour, and sleep; thickens the blood […].
- (John Donne)
- (Francis Bacon)
prevarication
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Noun
(en noun)- Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.
- The august tribunal of the skies, where no prevarication shall avail.
Charlemagne: Mysterious Mariano
- Mr Rajoy frustrates many with his prevarication over a fresh euro-zone bail-out, which now comes with a conditional promise from the European Central Bank (ECB) to help bring down Spain’s stifling borrowing costs.
- (Cowell)