falsification

From false + -ification.

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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.

• falsify

• IPA^(key): /fal.si.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

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falsification f (plural falsifications)

1. falsification

• “falsification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

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