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Falsification

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    the act of determining that something is false wordnet
  3. 3
    A knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting wordnet
  5. 5
    The act of showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    a willful perversion of facts wordnet
  2. 7
    any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something wordnet

Etymology

From false + -ification.

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