Falsity

Falsity

A Falsity is a perversion of truth originating in the deceitfulness of one party, and culminating in the damage of another party. Falsity is also a measure of the quality or extent of the falseness of something.

Counterfeiting money, or attempting to coin genuine legal tender without due authorization; tampering with wills, codicils, or such-like legal instruments; prying into the correspondence of others to their prejudice; using false weights and measures, adulterating merchandise, so as to render saleable what purchasers would otherwise never buy, or so as to derive larger profits from goods otherwise marketable only at lower figures; bribing judges, suborning witnesses; advancing false testimony; manufacturing spurious seals; forging signatures; padding accounts; interpolating the texts of legal enactments; and sharing in the pretended birth of supposititious offspring are among the chief forms which this crime assumes.

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  • Falsity — Fal si*ty, n.;pl. {Falsities}. [L. falsitas: cf. F. fausset[ e], OF. also, falsit[ e]. See {False}, a.] 1. The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth. [1913 Webster] Probability does not make any alteration, either in… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Falsity — • A perversion of truth originating in the deceitfulness of one party, and culminating in the damage of another party Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Falsity     Falsity      …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • falsity — fal·si·ty / fȯl sə tē/ n pl ties 1: something false 2: the quality or state of being false did not establish the falsity of the statement Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

  • falsity — 1550s, from O.Fr. fauseté (12c., Mod.Fr. fausseté), from L.L. falsitatem (nom. falsitas), from L. falsus (see FALSE (Cf. false)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • falsity — [n] dishonesty, deception canard, cheating, deceit, deceptiveness, disingenuousness, double dealing, duplicity, erroneousness, error, faithlessness, fake, fallacy, falsehood, fib, fraud, fraudulence, hypocrisy, inaccuracy, infidelity, insincerity …   New thesaurus

  • falsity — [fôl′sə tē] n. [ME falsete < OFr < L falsitas] 1. the condition or quality of being false; specif., a) incorrectness b) dishonesty c) deceitfulness d) disloyalty 2. pl. fals …   English World dictionary

  • falsity — falsehood, falseness, falsity The three words, all to do with departure from the truth or what is true, have a considerable overlap in meaning and are sometimes interchangeable. Falsehood is the intentional telling of an untruth, and a falsehood… …   Modern English usage

  • falsity — noun a) Something that is false; an untrue assertion. The belief that the world is flat is a falsity. b) The characteristic of being untrue. The falsity of that statement is easily proven. Syn …   Wiktionary

  • falsity — false ► ADJECTIVE 1) not in accordance with the truth or facts. 2) invalid or illegal. 3) deliberately intended to deceive. 4) artificial. 5) not actually so; illusory: a false sense of security. 6) disloyal. DERIVATIVES …   English terms dictionary

  • falsity — noun 1. a false statement (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑falsehood, ↑untruth • Ant: ↑truth (for: ↑falsehood) • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

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