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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary fal·si·fi·ca·tion noun ⇨ see falsify Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged fal·si·fi·ca·tion \ˌfȯl(t)səfə̇ˈkāshən\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle French, from Medieval Latin falsification-, falsificatio, from falsificatus (past participle of falsificare) + Latin -ion-, -io -ion 1. : the act or an instance of falsifying: as a. : a counterfeiting (as of a work of art) b. : a usually willful misstatement or misrepresentation : distortion < a far-reaching and fateful falsification of German cultural history — W.A.Kaufmann > < of Othello … one can say bluntly … that it suffers in current appreciation an essential falsification — F.R.Leavis > 2. : the act or an instance of showing something to be false or erroneous 3. : a fraudulent alteration of or tampering with (as an account or judgment) |
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