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To: Colofornian
You know I never even saw the word "prevarication" (to engage in this means to deviate from the truth/distort) til several years ago -- in a Mormon context.

Perhaps you need to read more widely. According to my dictionary, the word prevaricate had appeared in English by 1631, two hundred years before the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized.

The word was not invented to apply to Mormons, nor has it been applied exclusively to Mormons, your limited acquaintance with it notwithstanding.

(Your use of Google is puzzling. Is it supposed to prove something?)

643 posted on 07/06/2010 8:39:53 PM PDT by Logophile
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To: Logophile
(Your use of Google is puzzling. Is it supposed to prove something?)

If "Prevaricate/prevarication" was a rare character trait of Mormons, I don't think we'd see a common Google association, now would we?

(People can make the same Google search for themselves, review the articles that pop up, and see for themselves)

653 posted on 07/06/2010 8:58:58 PM PDT by Colofornian (If we could "CTR" we wouldn't need a Savior. [See 1 Corinthians 1:30])
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