Forgery

Definitions

1. The act of forging metal into shape.
   countable, uncountable
2. The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.
   countable, uncountable
3. That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
   countable, uncountable
4. An invention, creation.
   archaic, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“the forgery of horseshoes”

“the forgery of a bond”

“Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash⟳ off.”

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