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false +‎ -ification

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falsification (countable and uncountable, plural falsifications)

  1. 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.
  2. A knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation.
  3. The act of showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.

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  • IPA(key): /fal.si.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/
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falsification f (plural falsifications)

  1. falsification

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