falsehoodn.

Brit.

/ˈfɔːlshʊd/,

/ˈfɒlshʊd/, U.S.

/ˈfɔlsˌhʊd/,

/ˈfɑlsˌhʊd/

Forms: Also † falsehead. Forms: α. Middle English–1500s fals(e)-, (Middle English falce-, fauls- southern dialect vals-), hed(e, -ed, (Middle English -ede, -heed, -id, Middle English -hedd, 1500s -heade), 1500s–1600s -head. β. Middle English–1500s fals- (1500s false-) hod(e, (Middle English Scottish -ade), 1500s– falsehood.

Etymology: < false adj. + -head suffix, -hood suffix.

†1. As an attribute of persons: Falseness, deceitfulness, mendacity, faithlessness. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unfaithfulness > [noun]

untruthc893

untruenessOE

falsehood1297

falsenessc1330

untrothc1374

mistruthc1480

disloyalty1481

unfaithfulness?a1505

untrustiness1526

infidelity1529

deloyalty1571

disloyalness1586

faithlessness1598

recreancy1602

infaithfulness1685

trustlessness1828

disfaith1881

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun]

leasec888

falsec1000

falsedom1297

falsehood1297

bula1300

gabbinga1300

variancea1450

falset1482

mendacity?1540

unverityc1572

truthlessness1662

mendaciousness1829

untruthfulness1830

unveracity1839

inveracity1864

untruism1868

falseship-

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > quality of

swikeldoma1250

swikelhedea1250

falsehood1297

deceit1303

falsenessc1330

fraud?a1400

dolosity1401

guilefulnessa1425

feignedness1435

deceitfulness1509

deceivableness1526

knavishness1528

braidienessa1600

fallacy1641

trickiness1723

trickishness1788

deceptiveness1837

snakiness1842

sophistic1868

snakishness1901

society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > unfaithfulness > [noun]

untruthc893

untruenessOE

falsedom1297

falsehood1297

falsenessc1330

falsityc1330

untrothc1374

mistruthc1480

disloyalty1481

unfaithfulness1526

untrustiness1526

deloyalty1571

disloyalness1586

truth breach1597

faithlessness1598

bad faith1653

infaithfulness1685

trustlessness1828

unreliableness1844

disfaith1881

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 454 Of falshede, ne of trecherye, in þe worl hys per nys.

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xi. 2 Sothfastnes is lessed & falshede waxis.

c1440 Generydes 1539 A sotilte To hide your falshede.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxxxii. 253 Me thynke he is full of falshede for I se none other but he purchaseth for your deth.

a. Want of conformity to fact or truth; falsity. Now almost always implying intentional falsity.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [noun]

falseness1303

falselekea1350

untrothc1386

falsehooda1400

untruth1439

mensongec1450

fallax1530

falsity1579

fallacy1590

impropriety1611

improperness1612

wrongc1620

fallaciousness1644

fallacity1648

untrueness1652

unsubstantiality1838

unsubstantialness1860

incorrectitude1898

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 22865 Mony wenen þat ben not wise Þat þat flesshe shal not hool vp rise Þat to wene is but falshede.

c1440 Generydes 5221 Ffalshede and trougth is euer atte debate.

1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory i. viii. sig. a6 Truthe and falshed be two contraryauntys.

1611 Bible (King James) Job xxi. 34 In your answeres there remaineth falshood .

1742 S. Johnson in J. Swan tr. T. Sydenham Entire Wks. p. ix The falsehood of this report.

1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature & Cure Calculus 46 He has..shewn the falsehood of the conclusion.

1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) 20 The shameless assertion, that truth and falsehood are indifferent in their own natures.

b. That which, or something that, is contrary to fact or truth; an untrue proposition, doctrine, belief, etc.; untrue propositions, etc. in general.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [noun] > false proposition, statement, etc.

falsec1380

falsehood1393

falsity1557

paradox1570

slip1579

fallacy1590

falsism1835

unfact1887

1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 136 Logique hath eke in his degree Betwene the trouthe and falshode The pleine wordes for to shode.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 373 Out of a treuthe folewith not a falshede.

1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 289 Such Minds, as shall have as clear Conceptions of Falshoods, as they have of Truths.

1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) II. 278 Truth would be suppressed together with falsehood.

1847 A. Helps Friends in Council I. i. 6 Each age has to fight with its own falsehoods.

1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 404 It would be easy..to exaggerate this truth..into a falsehood.

†c. An error, mistake (in writing); a slip of the pen. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > error in written mode > instance of

miswriting1430

falsehoodc1440

fault1523

escape1570

erratum1589

errat1654

misprint1813

mis-script1817

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 148 Falsheed yn boke, for yvel wrytynge, menda.

3. Deception, falsification, imposture; a forgery, counterfeit. Obsolete or archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun]

swikec893

swikedomc893

dwalec950

braida1000

falsec1000

flerdc1000

swikelnessa1023

fakenOE

chuffingc1175

fikenungc1175

bipechingc1200

treachery?c1225

falseshipc1230

guilec1230

telingc1230

swikeheada1250

craftc1275

felony1297

wrench1297

deceitc1300

gabc1300

guiling13..

guilery1303

quaintisec1325

wrenk1338

beswiking1340

falsehood1340

abetc1350

wissing1357

wilec1374

faitery1377

faiting1377

tregetryc1380

fallacec1384

trainc1390

coverture1393

facrere1393

ficklenessc1397

falsagea1400

tregeta1400

abusionc1405

blearingc1405

deceptionc1430

mean?c1430

tricotc1430

obreption1465

fallacy1481

japery1496

gauderya1529

fallax1530

conveyance1531

legerdemain1532

dole1538

trompe1547

joukery1562

convoyance1578

forgery1582

abetment1586

outreaching1587

chicanery1589

falsery1594

falsity1603

fubbery1604

renaldry1612

supercherie1621

circumduction1623

fobbinga1627

dice-play1633

beguile1637

fallaxitya1641

ingannation1646

hocus1652

renardism1661

dodgerya1670

knapping1671

trap1681

joukery-pawkery1686

jugglery1699

take-in1772

tripotage1779

trickery1801

ruse1807

dupery1816

nailing1819

pawkery1820

hanky-panky1841

hokey-pokey1847

suck-in1856

phenakisma1863

skulduggery1867

sharp practice1869

dodginess1871

jiggery-pokery1893

flim-flammery1898

runaround1915

hanky1924

to give the go-around1925

Scandiknavery1927

the twist1933

hype1955

mamaguy1971

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [noun] > something false or forged

falsehood1340

counterfeiture1548

forgery1574

bastard1581

man of straw1599

counterfeit1613

imitationa1616

mock1646

pasteboard1648

sophistication1664

imposture1699

fraud1725

sham1728

adulteration1756

falsity1780

duff1781

shim-sham1797

shammy1822

Hodge-razor1843

pinchbeck1847

shice1859

cook-up1865

postiche1876

fakery1880

fake1883

bogosity1893

spuriosity1894

dud1897

cluck1904

rake-up1957

bodgie1988

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 40 Notaryes þet makeþ þe ualse lettres, and..to uele oþre ualshedes.

c1394 P. Pl. Crede 616 Þanne [he] ..fyeþ on her falshedes þat þei bifore deden.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 122 Hee..Artificer of fraud..was the first That practisd falshood under saintly shew.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 811 No falshood can endure Touch of Celestial temper.

4. The intentional making of false statements; lying. (Occasionally with wider sense adopted from ancient philosophy: see quot. 1821.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > telling of falsehoods, lying

leasingc950

fablinga1300

lyinga1300

menteryc1450

blanching1581

forgery1582

whetstone-leasing1598

Creticism1614

mentition1656

falsehood1662

storytelling1681

mendaciloquencec1710

fibbing1749

economy of truth1796

fibbery1857

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. iv. §10 Herodotus was..suspected of falshood.

1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. v. 162 Add not the audacity of falsehood, to the headlong passions of youth.

1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 135 Your logical falsehood is—where, for example, you speak of a thing which is not true as if it were true, whether you think it true or not: your ethical falsehood is—where you speak of a thing as true, believing it not to be true, whether it be really true or not.

a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 394 Fraud in kings was held accurst, And falsehood sin was reckoned.

1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 24 Falsehood is permitted by their religion.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 74 He who loves involuntary falsehood is a fool.

5. An uttered untruth; a lie. Also, false statements, uttered untruth, in general.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a falsehood, lie

liec900

leasingc1000

falsehoodc1290

falsedom1297

gabbinga1300

fablec1300

follyc1300

fittenc1440

untruthc1449

crackc1450

fallacy1481

falsity1557

falsedict1579

untroth1581

crackera1625

flam1632

mendacity1646

fairy story1692

false1786

whid1794

gag1805

wrinkle1819

reacher1828

cram1842

untruism1845

crammer1861

inveracity1864

bung1882

fairy tale1896

mistruth1897

post-and-rails1945

pork pie1973

porky1985

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. 42/288 Alas, alas, þe deolfole cas: to heore so muche falshede!

c1380 J. Wyclif in Sel. Wks. III. 140 He seies, as blaspheme falsehed þat he makes medeful to slee Cristen men.

c1450 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xlix. 223 He with his sotil cautellis & falshedes blindithe & disseyuithe þe soule.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iv. i. 38 I will turne thy falshoode to thy heart, Where it was forged with my rapiers point.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. xiii. 332 Why did you accuse me of having told a falsehood.

1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. ii. 42 To cover brick with cement, and to divide this cement with joints that it may look like stone, is to tell a falsehood.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iv. 314 A small element of truth may furnish a substructure for a considerable edifice of falsehood.

†6. Arithmetic. rule of falsehood = ‘False Position’: see position n. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] > mathematical enquiry > process of calculating > method or rule for

rulea1387

canonc1400

backer1543

position1551

rule of falsehood1552

rule of three1562

method of exhaustions1685

sieve1803

sieve of Eratosthenes1803

algorithm1811

algorism1888

sieve1897

decision procedure1936

pivotal condensation1939

decision method1940

1552 R. Record Ground of Artes (rev. ed.) ii. sig. X.vi^v The rule of Falsehoode, whiche beareth his name..for that by false numbres taken at all aduentures, it teacheth howe to fynde those true numbres that you seke for.

7. Scots Law. (See quot.): in modern law books for the older falset n.¹

ΘΚΠ

society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > concealment of truth

concealmenta1325

falset1482

falsehood1678

1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. i. 268 Falsum, Falshood..a fraudulent suppression, or imitation of Truth, in prejudice of another.

1773 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. II. iv. iv. §66.

1861 in G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev.ed.) 378/2.

Compounds

falsehood-free adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > truthfulness, veracity > [adjective]

soothfastc825

soothsaȝelc900

trueOE

unlighela1200

sootha1250

un-i-lowec1380

textualc1386

veritable1489

truthful1568

troth telling1579

veridical1653

verificala1660

of veracity1671

veriloquous1672

veraciousa1677

unfabling1797

veridicous1817

falsehood-free1850

trothful1861

veridic1895

society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > [adjective]

soothfastc825

truefastOE

i-treowec1000

unfakenOE

trueOE

sickerc1100

trigc1175

strustya1250

steel to the (very) backa1300

true as steela1300

certainc1325

well-provedc1325

surec1330

traistc1330

tristc1330

trustya1350

faithfula1382

veryc1385

sada1387

discreet1387

trust1389

trothfulc1390

tristya1400

proveda1425

good-heartedc1425

well-trusted?a1439

tristfulc1440

authorizablea1475

faithworthy?1526

tentik1534

fidele1539

truthfulc1550

suresby1553

responsible1558

trestc1560

reliable1569

cocksurea1575

sound1581

trustful1582

truepenny1589

true (also good, sure) as touch1590

probable1596

confident1605

trustable1606

axiopistical1611

loyala1616

reposeful1627

confiding1645

fiducial1647

laudable1664

safe1667

accountable1683

serious1693

sponsible1721

dependable1730

unfailing1798

truthya1802

trustworthy1829

all right1841

stand-up1841

falsehood-free1850

right1856

proven1872

bankable1891

secure1954

1850 E. B. Browning Exile's Return in Poems iii How change could touch the falsehood-free And changeless thee!

falsehood-monger n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > false or foolish > teller of

triflera1382

gunster1699

falsehood-monger1839

1839 Lady Lytton Cheveley (ed. 2) I. xii. 293 What will not those falsehood-mongers, the poets, have to answer for.

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单词	falsehood
释义	falsehoodn. Brit. /ˈfɔːlshʊd/, /ˈfɒlshʊd/, U.S. /ˈfɔlsˌhʊd/, /ˈfɑlsˌhʊd/ Forms: Also † falsehead. Forms: α. Middle English–1500s fals(e)-, (Middle English falce-, fauls- southern dialect vals-), hed(e, -ed, (Middle English -ede, -heed, -id, Middle English -hedd, 1500s -heade), 1500s–1600s -head. β. Middle English–1500s fals- (1500s false-) hod(e, (Middle English Scottish -ade), 1500s– falsehood. Etymology: < false adj. + -head suffix, -hood suffix. †1. As an attribute of persons: Falseness, deceitfulness, mendacity, faithlessness. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unfaithfulness > [noun] untruthc893 untruenessOE falsehood1297 falsenessc1330 untrothc1374 mistruthc1480 disloyalty1481 unfaithfulness?a1505 untrustiness1526 infidelity1529 deloyalty1571 disloyalness1586 faithlessness1598 recreancy1602 infaithfulness1685 trustlessness1828 disfaith1881 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] leasec888 falsec1000 falsedom1297 falsehood1297 bula1300 gabbinga1300 variancea1450 falset1482 mendacity?1540 unverityc1572 truthlessness1662 mendaciousness1829 untruthfulness1830 unveracity1839 inveracity1864 untruism1868 falseship- the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > quality of swikeldoma1250 swikelhedea1250 falsehood1297 deceit1303 falsenessc1330 fraud?a1400 dolosity1401 guilefulnessa1425 feignedness1435 deceitfulness1509 deceivableness1526 knavishness1528 braidienessa1600 fallacy1641 trickiness1723 trickishness1788 deceptiveness1837 snakiness1842 sophistic1868 snakishness1901 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > unfaithfulness > [noun] untruthc893 untruenessOE falsedom1297 falsehood1297 falsenessc1330 falsityc1330 untrothc1374 mistruthc1480 disloyalty1481 unfaithfulness1526 untrustiness1526 deloyalty1571 disloyalness1586 truth breach1597 faithlessness1598 bad faith1653 infaithfulness1685 trustlessness1828 unreliableness1844 disfaith1881 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 454 Of falshede, ne of trecherye, in þe worl hys per nys. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xi. 2 Sothfastnes is lessed & falshede waxis. c1440 Generydes 1539 A sotilte To hide your falshede. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxxxii. 253 Me thynke he is full of falshede for I se none other but he purchaseth for your deth. 2. a. Want of conformity to fact or truth; falsity. Now almost always implying intentional falsity. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [noun] falseness1303 falselekea1350 untrothc1386 falsehooda1400 untruth1439 mensongec1450 fallax1530 falsity1579 fallacy1590 impropriety1611 improperness1612 wrongc1620 fallaciousness1644 fallacity1648 untrueness1652 unsubstantiality1838 unsubstantialness1860 incorrectitude1898 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 22865 Mony wenen þat ben not wise Þat þat flesshe shal not hool vp rise Þat to wene is but falshede. c1440 Generydes 5221 Ffalshede and trougth is euer atte debate. 1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory i. viii. sig. a6 Truthe and falshed be two contraryauntys. 1611 Bible (King James) Job xxi. 34 In your answeres there remaineth falshood . View more context for this quotation 1742 S. Johnson in J. Swan tr. T. Sydenham Entire Wks. p. ix The falsehood of this report. 1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature & Cure Calculus 46 He has..shewn the falsehood of the conclusion. 1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) 20 The shameless assertion, that truth and falsehood are indifferent in their own natures. b. That which, or something that, is contrary to fact or truth; an untrue proposition, doctrine, belief, etc.; untrue propositions, etc. in general. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [noun] > false proposition, statement, etc. falsec1380 falsehood1393 falsity1557 paradox1570 slip1579 fallacy1590 falsism1835 unfact1887 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 136 Logique hath eke in his degree Betwene the trouthe and falshode The pleine wordes for to shode. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 373 Out of a treuthe folewith not a falshede. 1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 289 Such Minds, as shall have as clear Conceptions of Falshoods, as they have of Truths. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) II. 278 Truth would be suppressed together with falsehood. 1847 A. Helps Friends in Council I. i. 6 Each age has to fight with its own falsehoods. 1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 404 It would be easy..to exaggerate this truth..into a falsehood. †c. An error, mistake (in writing); a slip of the pen. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > error in written mode > instance of miswriting1430 falsehoodc1440 fault1523 escape1570 erratum1589 errat1654 misprint1813 mis-script1817 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 148 Falsheed yn boke, for yvel wrytynge, menda. 3. Deception, falsification, imposture; a forgery, counterfeit. Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] swikec893 swikedomc893 dwalec950 braida1000 falsec1000 flerdc1000 swikelnessa1023 fakenOE chuffingc1175 fikenungc1175 bipechingc1200 treachery?c1225 falseshipc1230 guilec1230 telingc1230 swikeheada1250 craftc1275 felony1297 wrench1297 deceitc1300 gabc1300 guiling13.. guilery1303 quaintisec1325 wrenk1338 beswiking1340 falsehood1340 abetc1350 wissing1357 wilec1374 faitery1377 faiting1377 tregetryc1380 fallacec1384 trainc1390 coverture1393 facrere1393 ficklenessc1397 falsagea1400 tregeta1400 abusionc1405 blearingc1405 deceptionc1430 mean?c1430 tricotc1430 obreption1465 fallacy1481 japery1496 gauderya1529 fallax1530 conveyance1531 legerdemain1532 dole1538 trompe1547 joukery1562 convoyance1578 forgery1582 abetment1586 outreaching1587 chicanery1589 falsery1594 falsity1603 fubbery1604 renaldry1612 supercherie1621 circumduction1623 fobbinga1627 dice-play1633 beguile1637 fallaxitya1641 ingannation1646 hocus1652 renardism1661 dodgerya1670 knapping1671 trap1681 joukery-pawkery1686 jugglery1699 take-in1772 tripotage1779 trickery1801 ruse1807 dupery1816 nailing1819 pawkery1820 hanky-panky1841 hokey-pokey1847 suck-in1856 phenakisma1863 skulduggery1867 sharp practice1869 dodginess1871 jiggery-pokery1893 flim-flammery1898 runaround1915 hanky1924 to give the go-around1925 Scandiknavery1927 the twist1933 hype1955 mamaguy1971 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [noun] > something false or forged falsehood1340 counterfeiture1548 forgery1574 bastard1581 man of straw1599 counterfeit1613 imitationa1616 mock1646 pasteboard1648 sophistication1664 imposture1699 fraud1725 sham1728 adulteration1756 falsity1780 duff1781 shim-sham1797 shammy1822 Hodge-razor1843 pinchbeck1847 shice1859 cook-up1865 postiche1876 fakery1880 fake1883 bogosity1893 spuriosity1894 dud1897 cluck1904 rake-up1957 bodgie1988 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 40 Notaryes þet makeþ þe ualse lettres, and..to uele oþre ualshedes. c1394 P. Pl. Crede 616 Þanne [he] ..fyeþ on her falshedes þat þei bifore deden. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 122 Hee..Artificer of fraud..was the first That practisd falshood under saintly shew. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 811 No falshood can endure Touch of Celestial temper. View more context for this quotation 4. The intentional making of false statements; lying. (Occasionally with wider sense adopted from ancient philosophy: see quot. 1821.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > telling of falsehoods, lying leasingc950 fablinga1300 lyinga1300 menteryc1450 blanching1581 forgery1582 whetstone-leasing1598 Creticism1614 mentition1656 falsehood1662 storytelling1681 mendaciloquencec1710 fibbing1749 economy of truth1796 fibbery1857 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. iv. §10 Herodotus was..suspected of falshood. 1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. v. 162 Add not the audacity of falsehood, to the headlong passions of youth. 1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 135 Your logical falsehood is—where, for example, you speak of a thing which is not true as if it were true, whether you think it true or not: your ethical falsehood is—where you speak of a thing as true, believing it not to be true, whether it be really true or not. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 394 Fraud in kings was held accurst, And falsehood sin was reckoned. 1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 24 Falsehood is permitted by their religion. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 74 He who loves involuntary falsehood is a fool. 5. An uttered untruth; a lie. Also, false statements, uttered untruth, in general. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a falsehood, lie liec900 leasingc1000 falsehoodc1290 falsedom1297 gabbinga1300 fablec1300 follyc1300 fittenc1440 untruthc1449 crackc1450 fallacy1481 falsity1557 falsedict1579 untroth1581 crackera1625 flam1632 mendacity1646 fairy story1692 false1786 whid1794 gag1805 wrinkle1819 reacher1828 cram1842 untruism1845 crammer1861 inveracity1864 bung1882 fairy tale1896 mistruth1897 post-and-rails1945 pork pie1973 porky1985 c1290 S. Eng. Leg. 42/288 Alas, alas, þe deolfole cas: to heore so muche falshede! c1380 J. Wyclif in Sel. Wks. III. 140 He seies, as blaspheme falsehed þat he makes medeful to slee Cristen men. c1450 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xlix. 223 He with his sotil cautellis & falshedes blindithe & disseyuithe þe soule. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iv. i. 38 I will turne thy falshoode to thy heart, Where it was forged with my rapiers point. View more context for this quotation 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. xiii. 332 Why did you accuse me of having told a falsehood. 1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. ii. 42 To cover brick with cement, and to divide this cement with joints that it may look like stone, is to tell a falsehood. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iv. 314 A small element of truth may furnish a substructure for a considerable edifice of falsehood. †6. Arithmetic. rule of falsehood = ‘False Position’: see position n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] > mathematical enquiry > process of calculating > method or rule for rulea1387 canonc1400 backer1543 position1551 rule of falsehood1552 rule of three1562 method of exhaustions1685 sieve1803 sieve of Eratosthenes1803 algorithm1811 algorism1888 sieve1897 decision procedure1936 pivotal condensation1939 decision method1940 1552 R. Record Ground of Artes (rev. ed.) ii. sig. X.vi^v The rule of Falsehoode, whiche beareth his name..for that by false numbres taken at all aduentures, it teacheth howe to fynde those true numbres that you seke for. 7. Scots Law. (See quot.): in modern law books for the older falset n.¹ ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > concealment of truth concealmenta1325 falset1482 falsehood1678 1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. i. 268 Falsum, Falshood..a fraudulent suppression, or imitation of Truth, in prejudice of another. 1773 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. II. iv. iv. §66. 1861 in G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev.ed.) 378/2. Compounds falsehood-free adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > truthfulness, veracity > [adjective] soothfastc825 soothsaȝelc900 trueOE unlighela1200 sootha1250 un-i-lowec1380 textualc1386 veritable1489 truthful1568 troth telling1579 veridical1653 verificala1660 of veracity1671 veriloquous1672 veraciousa1677 unfabling1797 veridicous1817 falsehood-free1850 trothful1861 veridic1895 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > faithfulness or trustworthiness > [adjective] soothfastc825 truefastOE i-treowec1000 unfakenOE trueOE sickerc1100 trigc1175 strustya1250 steel to the (very) backa1300 true as steela1300 certainc1325 well-provedc1325 surec1330 traistc1330 tristc1330 trustya1350 faithfula1382 veryc1385 sada1387 discreet1387 trust1389 trothfulc1390 tristya1400 proveda1425 good-heartedc1425 well-trusted?a1439 tristfulc1440 authorizablea1475 faithworthy?1526 tentik1534 fidele1539 truthfulc1550 suresby1553 responsible1558 trestc1560 reliable1569 cocksurea1575 sound1581 trustful1582 truepenny1589 true (also good, sure) as touch1590 probable1596 confident1605 trustable1606 axiopistical1611 loyala1616 reposeful1627 confiding1645 fiducial1647 laudable1664 safe1667 accountable1683 serious1693 sponsible1721 dependable1730 unfailing1798 truthya1802 trustworthy1829 all right1841 stand-up1841 falsehood-free1850 right1856 proven1872 bankable1891 secure1954 1850 E. B. Browning Exile's Return in Poems iii How change could touch the falsehood-free And changeless thee! falsehood-monger n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > false or foolish > teller of triflera1382 gunster1699 falsehood-monger1839 1839 Lady Lytton Cheveley (ed. 2) I. xii. 293 What will not those falsehood-mongers, the poets, have to answer for. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1290
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