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falsity|ˈfɔːlsɪtɪ, ˈfɒlsɪtɪ|
Forms: 4 falste, falsite, 5 -etee, 6–7 -itie, (7 fauxitie), 6– falsity.
[a. OF. falseté (mod.F. fausseté), ad. L. falsitās, f. falsus false: see -ity.]
1. The quality or condition of being false.
a. Contrariety or want of conformity to truth or fact. Also an instance of this.
1579Fulke Confut. Sanders 577 Between veritie & falsitie there is no meane. 1655–60Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 27/2 He [Solon] absolutely forbad him to teach or act Tragedies considering their falsity unprofitable. 1767Wilkes Corr. (1805) III. 89 His lordship had not said a word to prove the falsity of any one sentence. 1879Gladstone Glean. II. i. 3 He..denounced the falsity of the doctrine which was inculcated there.
b. Untruthfulness, deceitfulness, insincerity.
1603I. C. in Shaks. C. Praise 57 Cressids falsitie. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 943 Accusations of ingratitude and falsity. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 235 A Greece which had lost its genius and retained its falsity.
c. Spurious or counterfeit character.
1678R. Barclay Apol. Quakers v. §16. 146 Socrates was informed by it..of the Falsity of the Heathen's Gods.
2. Something that is false.
a. An untrue proposition, doctrine, or statement; an error or falsehood. Also in generalized sense, that which is untrue; false opinion or statement, error, falsehood.
1557N.T. (Genev.) Epist. *iv, In lyes and falsitie ther is no suche consent and concorde. a1661Fuller Worthies iii. 57 God forbid, that this Authors fauxities should make us undervalue this worthy King. 1776Paine Com. Sense (1791) 24 The most barefaced falsity ever imposed upon mankind. 1833Marryat P. Simple (1863) 428 A preamble, composed of every falsity that could be devised.
b. A counterfeit, sham. rare.
1780F. Burney Lett. 22 Jan., This, as Miss Waldron said of her hair, is all a falsity.
†3. False or treacherous conduct; treachery, fraud. Obs.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 247 Dilexit Sir Adam gilerie & falste. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. cxxvi. (1869) 123 Flaterye j am cleped bi my name..eldere douhter to falsetee. 1581Lambarde Eiren. iv. xxi. (1588) 625 Unlawfull taking of money for doing his office, or of such other falsitie. |