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FALSIFYING
falsification, falsifying, disproof, refutation, refutal
(noun) the act of determining that something is false
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
falsifying
present participle of falsify
Noun
falsifying (plural falsifyings)
falsification
Source: Wiktionary
FALSIFY
Fal"si*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Falsified; p. pr. & vb. n. Falsifying.] Etym: [L. falsus false + -ly: cf. F. falsifier. See False, a.]
1. To make false; to represent falsely. The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. Spenser.
2. To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.
3. 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. Shak. Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffie and falsify the prediction. Addison.
4. To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word. Sir P. Sidney.
5. To baffie or escape; as, to falsify a blow. Bulter.
6. (Law)
Definition: To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. Blackstone.
7. (Equity)
Definition: To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong. Story. Daniell.
8. To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document.
Fal"si*fy, v. i.
Definition: To tell lies; to violate the truth. It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify. South.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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