malversation
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French malversation, from malverser, from Latin male versari (“behave badly”). Compare Spanish malversación (“embezzlement”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
malversation (countable and uncountable, plural malversations)
- corrupt behaviour, illegitimate activity, especially by someone in authority
- 1549, chapter XIX, in The Complaynt of Scotland:
- the euyl exempil of ther maluersatione prouokyt the pepil til adhere to vice & to detest vertu.
- 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548
- The Decreet was for Sallary, and it was offered to be proven, that Rue (for his Malverſation) was by warrand from General Monk, excluded from Collection that year.
- 1923, Powys Mathers, transl., The Thousand Nights and One Night:
- The walī looked angrily on my brother, saying: ‘Shameless ill-doer, it is quite clear from these marks upon your back that you have practised every sort of crime and malversation.’
- 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part I:
- I see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government,
But violence, duplicity and frequent malversation.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From malverser + -ation, from Latin male (“badly”) versari (“behave”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
malversation f (plural malversations)
Further reading[edit]
- “malversation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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