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falseness
English
Etymology
false +? -ness
Noun
falseness (countable and uncountable, plural falsenesses)
- The characteristic of being false.
- 2016, Justin Deschamps:
- All falseness collapses under the weight of denied truth.
- 2016, Justin Deschamps:
Usage notes
- Falsehood, Falseness, Falsity; untruth, fabrication, fiction. Instances may be quoted in abundance from old authors to show that the first three words are often strictly synonymous; but the modern tendency has been decidedly in favor of separating them, falsehood standing for the concrete thing, an intentional lie; falseness, for the quality of being guiltily false or treacherous: as, he is justly despised for his falseness to his oath; and falsity, for the quality of being false without blame: as, the falsity of reasoning. — The Century Dictionary, 1911.
Synonyms
- fabrication
- falsehood, falsity
- fiction
- untruth
- See also Thesaurus:falsehood
Translations
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falsify
English
Etymology
From French falsifier, from Late Latin falsific?re, present active infinitive of falsific? (“make false, corrupt, counterfeit, falsify”), from Latin falsificus, from falsus (“false”), corresponding to false +? -ify.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?ls?fa?/
Verb
falsify (third-person singular simple present falsifies, present participle falsifying, simple past and past participle falsified)
- (transitive) To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.
- The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man.
- (transitive) To misrepresent.
- (transitive) To prove to be false.
- 1730, Joseph Addison, The Evidences Of The Christian Religion
- Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction.
- 1730, Joseph Addison, The Evidences Of The Christian Religion
- (transitive) To counterfeit; to forge.
- (transitive, accounting) To show (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
- 1833, Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States
- It will allow the account to stand, with liberty to the plaintiff to surcharge and falsify it
- 1912, Peyton Boyle, The Federal Reporter: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit District Courts of the United States
- The chancery rules governing proceedings to surcharge and falsify accounts are applicable only where an account has been stated between the parties, or where something equivalent thereto has been done.
- 1833, Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States
- (transitive, obsolete) To baffle or escape.
- a. 1680, Samuel Butler, Fragments of an intended second part of the foregoing satire
- For disputants (as swordsmen use to fence / With blunted foyles) engage with blunted sense; / And as th' are wont to falsify a blow, / Use nothing else to pass upon a foe […]
- a. 1680, Samuel Butler, Fragments of an intended second part of the foregoing satire
- (transitive, obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood.
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Further reading
- falsify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- falsify in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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