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/fˈɔlsəfˌaɪɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Falsify v. t. (past & past part. falsified; pres. part. falsifying)

To make false; to represent falsely. "The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man."

To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.

To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false. "By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hope." "Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction."

To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word.

To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow.

(Law) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment.

(Equity) To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.

To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document.

Falsify v. i. To tell lies; to violate the truth. "It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify." "South."

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"Falsifying" Quotes from Famous Books

... methods. One of these—and is well worth adverting to, for it exists to a greater degree than ever before—was the robbery of the people in the transportation of mails. By a fraudulent official construction, in 1873, of the postal laws, the railroads without cessation have cheated huge sums in falsifying the weight of mail carried, and since that time have charged ten times as much for mail carrying as have the express companies (the profits of which are very great) for equal haulage. But these are simply two phases of the postal plunder. ...

— Great Fortunes from Railroads • Gustavus Myers

... woods; the other, specimens for his herbarium. The former would enlist your sympathies and arouse your enthusiasm; the latter would add to your store of exact knowledge. The one is just as shy of over-coloring or falsifying his facts as the other, only he gives more than facts,—he gives impressions and analogies, and, as far as possible, shows you the ...

— Ways of Nature • John Burroughs

... maker will not wrench his word to helpe his rime, either by falsifying his accent, or by ...

— The Arte of English Poesie • George Puttenham

... history of Chiawassee Consolidated, and there was commercial sharp practice in plenty, with some nice balancings on the edge of criminality. Once, indeed, the balance had been quite lost, but it was Dyckman who had been thrust into the breach, or who had been induced to enter it by falsifying his books. Yet these were mere business matters, without standing in the ...

— The Quickening • Francis Lynde

... normal mind seemed bred without restraint in the caldron of his diseased brain. His was a vital sturdiness which, for ten years, refused death, but during the last of these he was physically and morally repellent. Sentiment, that too-often fear of unkind gossip, or ignorant falsifying of consequences, stood between this family and the proper institutional and professional care, which could have given him more than any family's love, and protected those who had their lives to live from ...

— Our Nervous Friends - Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness • Robert S. Carroll

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