falsification

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Definition of falsification

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noun

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

“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.”

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noun

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

“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.”
(countable, uncountable)A knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation.
(countable, uncountable)The act of showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.

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From false + -ification.

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