Citations:surreptition

English citations of surreptition

• 1817, John Fisher (Rector of Wavendon), A letter to F. Lewis, Esq. M.P. on Commutation of Tithes, page 7:

  But it is a presumption against any further change or surreptition, that the rights of the Church have never been assailed since that most arbitrary act, by which Henry despoiled her in the worst period of the monarchy; and it is an act, which  ...

• 1834, John Hewson, Christ Rejected: Or, The Trial of the Eleven Disciples of Christ in a Court of Law and Equity, as Charged with Stealing the Crucified Body of Christ Out of the Sepulchre ..., page 365:

  ... sixteen Roman guards, who stood watch at the sepulchre, on the very night it was reported to have been robbed - or this very singular and strange surreptition had been made, on the silent repose of the dead, by the prisoners at the bar.

• 1919, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs, Establishment of Military Justice, Hearings ..., on S. 64 ..., 1919, page 168:

  They say that that was disloyal, and that it was gained by surreptition. There, again, I did no more than frankly and in so many words put in the draft of an order, and wrote a memorandum to support it and sent all to the Chief of Staff, openly ...

• 1997, Seth Lerer, Professor Seth Lerer, Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII: Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit, Cambridge University Press (→ISBN), page 31:

  Such intercepted letters are the stuff of commonplace books, and chapter 4 argues that the rise of this social habit and this literary genre responds to the voyeurisms of desire and the temptations of surreptition. Commonplace books present ...

• 1998, David Farrell Krell, Contagion: Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism, Indiana University Press (→ISBN), page 10:

  Yet they, especially Novalis and Schelling, are troubled by the contagious nature of this "surreptition." While they can sense in themselves the expansion of spirit that accompanies the view of a storm at sea, "as an abyss that threatens to ...

• 2006, Seth Lerer, Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII: Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit, Cambridge University Press (→ISBN), page 12:

  ... and, in tum, to the nascent culture of surreptition and surveillance that defined the actions of the courtier and diplomat. ... But Henry's court also moved through the surreptitions of ambassadors and favorites — a habit of state secrecy that has  ...