surreptition
/səˌɹɛpˈtɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Subreption (act of obtaining by surprise, or by unfair representation through concealment).
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "They have found a way to continue drinking both furiously and yet with a certain degree of surreptition. The Australians near to the fence slice through the bonds keeping the wrists of the Tommies strapped to the posts. The first couple of ..."
- "We will propose a model that tries to apply ideas taken from the way plants, animals, and human societies have used surreptition to protect themselves against attackers to the way we can protect software from attack."
- "If any order shall be made, and the court not informed of the last material order formerly made, no benefit shall be taken by such order, as granted by abuse and surreptition, and to that end the registers ought duly to mention the former ..."
Etymology
Sense 1, at least, is probably a back-formation from surreptitious; for sense 2, compare the cognate synonym subreption.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /səˌɹɛpˈtɪʃən/
Usage
Inflected Forms
surreptitions (plural)