criterion of embarrassment

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An academic criterion of historical authenticity, by which an account is deemed likely to be true under the inference that the author would have no reason to invent a historical account which might embarrass them.

Word forms

criterion of embarrassment
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.