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falsification|ˌfɒlsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən|
[n. of action f. late L. falsificāre to falsify: see -ation.]
1. The action of rendering (something) false; fraudulent alteration (of documents, of weights or measures, etc.); misrepresentation, perversion (of facts); counterfeiting; an instance of the same.
1565Jewel Repl. Harding iv. §15. 251 He..shoareth vp a ruinous mater with the falsification of his Doctours. 1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. iii. §5. 137 By falsification of the wordes, wittingly to endeuour that anything may seeme diuine which is not. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 38 Some adulterate Castoreum..this is a falsification discernible. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. ii. 36, I am accused for lies and falsifications. 1682J. Scarlett Exchanges 351 If there were..ground of suspicion that the Figures were altered, its still the same; but..If the Falsification were so neat, that it could not so easily be discerned..then [etc.]. 1706Collier Refl. Ridic. 77 Affectation is the falsification of the whole Person. 1799S. Turner Anglo-Sax. (1836) I. iii. iii. 176 Their..manifest falsifications both of manners and history. 1833Lamb Elia (1860) 358 By a wise falsification, the great masters of painting got at their true conclusions. 1868E. Edwards Raleigh I. xxvi. 655 The falsification of date.
2. The showing (something) to be groundless.
1885Manch. Exam. 12 Dec. 5/2 The complete falsification of these confident assurances.
b. Equity. ‘The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong’ (Webster 1864, citing Story).
1845J. W. Smith Man. Equity 163 The proving an item to be wrongly inserted is a falsification. |