In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
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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