Concealment meaning

The act of hindering or preventing the discovery, knowledge, or sight of something.
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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 practice of keeping secrets.
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The condition of being hidden or concealed.
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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.

  • If the forest is cut off, the sprouts and bushes which spring up afford them concealment, and they become more numerous than ever.

  • 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.

  • Soon after he was dismissed from all his offices on the following charges, - the concealment, as attorney-general, of a bond belonging to the king, a charge which could not be proved, illegal interference with the court of chancery and disrespect to the king in the case of commendams. He was also ordered by the council to revise his book of reports, which was said to contain many extravagant opinions (June 1616).

  • 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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