falsification
English
Etymology
false + -ification
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
falsification (countable and uncountable, plural falsifications)
- The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
- 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 19:
- The main Christian doctrines and festivals, besides a great mass of affiliated legend and ceremonial, are really quite directly derived from, and related to, preceding Nature worships; and it has only been by a good deal of deliberate mystification and falsification that this derivation has been kept out of sight.
- A knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation.
- The act of showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.
Related terms
Translations
the act of making false
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intentionally false statement or wilful misrepresentation
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showing an item of charge in account to be wrong
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fal.si.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/
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Further reading
- “falsification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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