Meaning of FALSIFICATION
| Pronunciation: | | 'folsufu'keyshun
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- [n] the act of determining that something is false
- [n] the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
- [n] a willful perversion of facts
- [n] any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
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| | Synonyms: | | disproof, disproof, falsehood, falsifying, misrepresentaation, refutation, refutation |
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| | See Also: | | actus reus, confutation, counterexample, deceit, deception, determination, dishonesty, dissembling, dissimulation, distortion, equivocation, evidence, fabrication, finding, forgery, frame-up, grounds, knavery, lying, misconduct, overrefinement, prevarication, reductio, reductio ad absurdum, setup, sophistication, straining, tergiversation, torture, twisting, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fal`si*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. falsification.]
1. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting;
the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it
is not.
To counterfeit the living image of king in his
person exceedeth all falsifications. --Bacon.
2. Willful misstatement or misrepresentation.
Extreme necessity . . . forced him upon this bold
and violent falsification of the doctrine of the
alliance. --Bp.
Warburton.
3. (Equity) The showing an item of charge in an account to be
wrong. --Story.
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| | Related Terms: | | abstractionism, coloring, confabulation, deformation, distortion, equivocation, exaggeration, expressionism, false coloring, false swearing, falsifying, garbling, hyperbole, inaccuracy, injustice, litotes, miscoloring, misconstruction, misdrawing, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, nonrealism, overdrawing, overstatement, perjury, perversion, prevarication, slanting, straining, twisting, understatement |
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