#527a. Correction.
[Correct an error of information; distinguish from
correcting a flaw or misbehavior] — N.
correction.
disillusionment &c.
616.
V. correct, set right,
set straight, put straight; undeceive[obs3];
enlighten.
show one one’s
error; point out an error, point out a fallacy; pick
out an error, pick out the fallacy; open one’s
eyes.
pick apart an argument,
confutation &c. 479; reasoning &c. 476.
Adj. corrective.
Phr. I stand corrected.
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#528. Concealment.—
N. concealment; hiding &c. v.; occultation,
mystification.
seal of secrecy; screen
&c. 530; disguise &c. 530; masquerade; masked
battery; hiding place &c. 530; cryptography, steganography[obs3];
freemasonry.
stealth, stealthiness,
sneakiness; obreption|; slyness &c. (cunning)
702.
latitancy[obs3], latitation[obs3];
seclusion &c. 893; privacy,
secrecy, secretness[obs3]; incognita.
reticence; reserve;
mental reserve, reservation; arriere pensee[Fr],
suppression, evasion, white lie, misprision; silence
&c. (taciturnity) 585; suppression of truth &c. 544;
underhand dealing; closeness, secretiveness &c. adj.;
mystery.
latency &c. 526; snake
in the grass; secret &c. 533; stowaway.
V. conceal, hide, secrete,
put out of sight; lock up, seal up, bottle
up.
encrypt, encode, cipher.
cover, screen, cloak,
veil, shroud; cover up one’s tracks; screen from
sight, screen from observation; drawing the veil;
draw the curtain, close the curtain; curtain, shade,
eclipse, throw a view over; becloud, bemask; mask,
disguise; ensconce, muffle, smother; befog; whisper.
keep from; keep back,
keep to oneself; keep snug, keep close, keep
secret, keep dark; bury; sink, suppress; keep from,
keep from out of view, keep from out of sight; keep
in the shade, throw into the shade, throw into background;
stifle, hush up, smother, withhold, reserve; fence
with a question; ignore &c. 460.
keep a secret, keep
one’s own counsel; hold one’s tongue &c.
(silence)
585; make no sign, not let it go further; not breathe
a word, not breathe a syllable about; not let the
right hand know what the left is doing; hide one’s
light under a bushel, bury one’s talent in a
napkin.
keep in the dark, leave
in the dark, keep in the ignorance; blind,
blind the eyes; blindfold, hoodwink, mystify; puzzle
&c. (render uncertain) 475; bamboozle &c. (deceive)
545.
be concealed &c. v.;
suffer an eclipse; retire from sight, couch; hide
oneself; lie hid, lie in perdu[Fr], lie in close;
lie in ambush (ambush) 530; seclude oneself &c. 893;
lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, prowl; steal into, steal
out of, steal by, steal along; play at bopeep[obs3],
play at hide and seek; hide in holes and corners;
still hunt.
Adj. concealed &c. v.;
hidden; secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic,


