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Definition of Falsification

1. Noun. Any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something.

2. Noun. A willful perversion of facts.

3. Noun. The act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting.

4. Noun. The act of determining that something is false.

Definition of Falsification

1. n. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.

Definition of Falsification

1. Noun. the act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not ¹

2. Noun. knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation ¹

3. Noun. showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Falsification

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Falsification

1. The deliberate act of misrepresentation so as to deceive. See: Munchausen syndrome. Origin: L. Falsus, false, + facio, to make (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Falsification

falsest falsetto falsettoed falsettos falsework falseworks falshood falshoods falsicrimen falsidical

falsie falsies falsifiability falsifiable falsifiably falsification falsificationism falsificationist falsificationists falsifications

falsificator falsificators falsified falsifier falsifiers falsifies falsify falsifying falsing falsish

Literary usage of Falsification

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Advanced Accounting by Lawrence Robert Dicksee, James Edward Geoffrey De Montmorency (1903)
"The usual object of such falsification is to conceal the fact that there has been an actual misappropriation of property belonging to the undertaking, ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"We are concerned only with the falsification of Apostolic Letters, the only form of forgery that incurs excommunication ipso /acto specially reserved to the ..."

3. Commentaries on the Roman-Dutch Law by Simon van Leeuwen (1820)
"Falsification and false Coinage, what; and how to be punished. ... Falsification, belonging to the violation of the supreme power, is false coining of the ..."

4. The Principles of Mathematics by Bertrand Russell (1903)
"Whatever can be analyzed is a whole, and we have already seen that analysis of wholes is in some measure falsification. But it is important to realize the ..."

5. The Weekly Reporter by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain Privy Council (1896)
"The omission to state in the order of committal the character in which the falsification was committed is not a point of substance. ..."

6. Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the Courts in by Edward William Cox (1899)
"Being a charge of falsification of c. 52, sch. 1. accounts simply it was not within the treaty at all, and not within the offences mentioned in the ..."

7. Mr. Serjeant Stephen's New Commentaries on the Laws of England: Partly by Henry John Stephen, William Blackstone, James Stephen (1880)
"24 (the Falsification of Accounts Act, 1875), if a clerk, officer or servant shall wilfully, and with intent to defraud, destroy, alter, mutilate or falsify ..."

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