01 n. That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opin…
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That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion.“Affect not little shifts and subterfuges, to avoid the force of an argument.” — I. Watts.“By a miserable subterfuge, they hope to render this position safe by rendering it nugatory.” — Burke.