Falsification

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Falsification \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.
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              To counterfeit the living image of king in his
              person exceedeth all falsifications.  --Bacon.
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     2. Willful misstatement or misrepresentation.
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              Extreme necessity . . . forced him upon this bold
              and violent falsification of the doctrine of the
              alliance.                             --Bp.
                                                    Warburton.
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     3. (Equity) The showing an item of charge in an account to be
        wrong. --Story.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  falsification
       n 1: any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of
            something [syn: {disproof}, {refutation}]
       2: a willful perversion of facts [syn: {misrepresentaation}]
       3: the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent
          changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
          [syn: {falsehood}]
       4: the act of determining that something is false [syn: {falsifying},
           {disproof}, {refutation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "falsification":
     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