Concealment definition

The practice of keeping secrets.
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The hiding or placement of an object out of notice or sight.
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The concealment by deeds or speech of something that one has a duty to reveal.
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The failure to inform another of a material fact that one has a duty to reveal, with the intention that the other party rely upon the omission to his or her detriment.
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The concealment of something by maintaining silence when one has a duty to speak.
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The condition of being hidden or concealed.
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The act of hindering or preventing the discovery, knowledge, or sight of something.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
concealment
Plural:
concealments

Origin of concealment

  • From Old French concelement (“concealment, secrecy").

    From Wiktionary

Concealment Sentence Examples

  • Emerging from concealment, Simon settled in Tiberias and in other Galilean cities.

  • The nest is placed with little regard to concealment, and is not distinguished by much care in its construction.

  • The blind kings gradual revelation, under horrible torture, of the place of concealment of his several jewels and treasures, and his deportation and death (of the injuries thus received, at Damghan, en route to Mazandaran), must be classed among the darkest records of Oriental history.

  • The motive which a writer of satire must have had for secrecy under Domitian is sufficiently obvious; and the necessity of concealment and self-suppression thus imposed upon the writer may have permanently affected his whole manner of composition.

  • His life was one of concealment and disguises; a price was put on his head; but he was fearless and indefatigable in carrying on his propaganda and in ministering to the scattered Catholics, even in their prisons.

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