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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[

False

-hood

]

Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.

Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a

falsehood

in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction of the wheel which moveth it.

Fuller.

A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie.

Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness.

Betrayed by

falsehood

of his guard.

Shakespeare

A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture.

For his molten image is

falsehood

Jer. x. 14.

Syn. – Falsity; lie; untruth; fiction; fabrication. See

Noun.

fols'hood. [false and hood.]

Contrariety or inconformity to fact or truth; as the falsehood of a report.

Want of truth or veracity; a lie; an untrue assertion.

Want of honesty; treachery; deceitfulness; perfidy.

But falsehood is properly applied to things only. [See falseness.]

Counterfeit; false appearance; imposture.