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roachboy · 02-09-2009, 09:18 AM

here's some nice excerpts from the oxford english dictionary definition of fraud.
figure out which ones apply for yourself.
it's fun AND it's easy.

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1. The quality or disposition of being deceitful; faithlessness, insincerity. Now rare.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 3919 Alle for falsede, and frawde. c1430 LYDG. Min. Poems 162 Fle doubilnesse, fraud, and collusioun. 1508 DUNBAR Twa mariit wemen 255, I semyt sober, and sueit, et sempill without fraud. 1599 SHAKES. Much Ado II. iii. 74 The fraud of men was euer so. 1672 MARVELL Corr. Wks. 1872-5 II. 408, I do not believe there is any fraud in him. 1718 HICKES & NELSON J. Kettlewell II. xxvi. 128 A Person of Simplicity without Fraud. 1827 MACAULAY Machiav. Ess. (1854) 36 Vices..which are the natural defence of weakness, fraud and hypocrisy.
personified. 1606 DEKKER Sev. Sinnes II. (Arb.) 21 Frawd (with two faces) is his Daughter. 1790 BURKE Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 88 The discredited paper securities of impoverished fraud, and beggared rapine.

2. a. Criminal deception; the using of false representations to obtain an unjust advantage or to injure the rights or interests of another.
c1330 R. BRUNNE Chron. (1810) 128 In alle manere cause he sought {th}e right in skille, To gile no to fraude wild he neuer tille. 1382 WYCLIF Mark x. 19 Do no fraude, worschipe thi fadir and modir. 1570 B. GOOGE Pop. Kingd. I. (1880) 7 But safely keepes that he hath long, with frawde and lying got. 1667 MILTON P.L. I. 646 To work in close design, by fraud or guile, What force effected not. 1726-7 SWIFT Gulliver I. vi. 67 They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft. 1829 LYTTON Devereux III. iii, Fraud has been practised.

b. in Law. in fraud of, to the fraud of: so as to defraud; also, to the detriment or hindrance of.
[1278 Stat. Glouc. 6 Edw. I, c. 11 Ou par collusiun ou par fraude pur fere le termer perdre sun terme. 1292 BRITTON I. ii. §11 Ne nule manere de fraude.] 1590 SWINBURNE Testaments 151 The condition is reiected, as being made in fraude of mariage. 1596 SPENSER State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 622/2 The same Statutes..are often..wrested to the fraud of the subject. 1845 STEPHEN Comm. Laws Eng. (1874) II. 268 And shall not have deposited or invested in fraud of his creditors. 1848 WHARTON Law Lex., Fraud, all deceitful practices in defrauding or endeavouring to defraud another of his known right, by means of some artful device, contrary to the plain rule of common honesty.

3. a. An act or instance of deception, an artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured, a dishonest trick or stratagem.
c1374 CHAUCER Boeth. I. pr. iv. 9 (Camb. MS.) The iustice Regal hadde whilom demed hem bothe to gon into exil for hir trecheryes and fraudes. c1440 York Myst. xxxiii. 131 If {ygh}e feyne slike frawdis. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 10b, Moo than a thousande wayes he hath by his craftly fraudes to deceyue man. 1691 HARTCLIFFE Virtues 317 The Pharisees..made great shews of Piety, to cover their Frauds and Rapines. 1751 JOHNSON Rambler No. 126 {page}4 Declaiming against the frauds of any employment. 1836 J. GILBERT Chr. Atonem. iii. (1852) 72 The fraud of imputing guilt to a known innocent being. 1852 C. M. YONGE Cameos II. xxix. 312 Most of the Dauphin's followers gloried in their successful fraud and murder.