noun
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a wrong statement; a deceiving speech; act of lying; concealment of facts.
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act of comforting in distress or making feel less sad; consolation.
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friendly feeling or attitude; friendliness; the state of being friends.
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(rhet.) a fig, of speech, in which the real character of the thing in question is denied and that of another (alien or imaginary) object is attributed to or superimposed upon it.