Meaning of latitancy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act or state of lying hidden, or lurking.
   uncountable
2. Dormancy.
   uncountable
3. The act of withholding information in order to avoid justiciability.
   uncountable

Examples

“Her latitiancy must commence at some time, when the serpent poured such a flood out of his mouth, such vehemence of false doctrines, as to cause the true doctrines in much to submit thereto, and abscond; which is the woman's fleeing into the wilderness.”

“Latitancy, or the lying in wait of the ovum and spermatozoa for each other , has an important bearing on the question .”

“It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.”

“but being still unwilling to withhold their contents any longer from others also, either whose interest or curiosity be conceives might chance to be anyways excited by their disclosure, from their present dormant state of latitancy, to public view.”

“Supposing the fact of latency established, and the fact of latitancy justly inferred from it; still, under existing institutions, there exists a counter-probability by which its probative force in the character of a criminative circumstance is weakened.”

“The allegation of a cuase for a writ of pone is a mere matter of form; as much so as the allegation of latitancy upon mesne process, or the affection of John Doe for the tenant in possession.”

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