Fraudulence
noun ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 The condition of being fraudulent; deceitfulness. countable, uncountable
"I ſuppoſe ſome of my friends, to whom I read the firſt part, gave notice of my deſign, and, perhaps, ſold the treacherous intelligence at a higher price than the fraudulence of trade will now allow me for my book."
- 2 something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage wordnet
- 3 the quality of being fraudulent wordnet
- 4 a fraudulent or duplicitous representation wordnet
Example
More examples"I ſuppoſe ſome of my friends, to whom I read the firſt part, gave notice of my deſign, and, perhaps, ſold the treacherous intelligence at a higher price than the fraudulence of trade will now allow me for my book."
Etymology
From Old French fraudulence, from Latin fraudulentia (“deceitfulness, disposition to defraud; fraudulence”), from fraudulentus (“deceitful, fraudulent”) + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns). Fraudulentus is derived from fraus (“deceit, fraud”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrew- (“to mislead”)) + -ulentus (“abounding in, full of”).
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