Latitancy

Quick meaning: Latitancy is a noun meaning The act or state of lying hidden, or lurking.

Meaning

The act or state of lying hidden, or lurking.

More Meanings

1. Dormancy.
2. (law) The act of withholding information in order to avoid justiciability.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

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.

Related Words

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