Deceit vs Imposition - What's the difference?
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An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick
An act of deceiving someone
* {{quote-book, year=1998, author=Mike Dixon-Kennedy, title=Encyclopedia of Greco-Roman Mythology, page=125, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=2U7okUE3PIcC&pg=PA125
, passage=Upon his return he killed Eriphyle for her vanity and deceit of him and his father. }}
(uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive
* {{quote-book, year=1611, title=King James Bible, chapter=Psalms 10:7
, passage=His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.}}
(legal) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
The act of imposing]], laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, [[obtrude, obtruding, and the like.
That which is imposed, levied]], or [[enjoin, enjoined.
An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put or laid on others.
(printing) Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.
(religion) A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.
(UK) A task imposed on a student as punishment.
Deceit is a related term of imposition.
As nouns the difference between deceit and imposition
is that deceit is an act or practice intended to deceive; a trick while imposition is the act of imposing]], laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, [[obtrude|obtruding, and the like.deceit
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* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The whole conversation was merely a deceit .