English

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Etymology

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From non- +‎ false.

Adjective

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nonfalse (not comparable)

  1. Not false; true.
    • 1967, John R. Seeley, The Americanization of the unconscious, page 140:
      There is in each case a literal infinity of nonfalse representations that can be made.
    • 2002, Kevin John Gough, Compiling for the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR), page 37:
      The instruction "brtrue" branches for any nonfalse value and is thus the preferred way of encoding tests against zero.
    • 2007 January 24, Kelefa Sanneh, “It’s a Deal: You Like Me and I Like Me Too”, in New York Times[1]:
      Forget about false modesty, not to mention its nonfalse counterpart.