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Falsification

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
    countable, uncountable
  2. A knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation.
    countable, uncountable
  3. The act of showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.
    countable, uncountable

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Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

falsificationism falsificationist Falsifications falsificator Falsified Falsifier

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