spuriousnessn.
/ˈspjʊərɪəsnɪs/ 1. Bastardy, illegitimacy. rare.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [noun] > illegitimacy
bastc1325
bastardy?a1400
bastardryc1425
bastardise1579
base1586
bastardism?1589
illegitimation1595
basenessa1616
bastardliness1647
illegitimateness1648
spuriousness1668
illegitimacy1680
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 28.
1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum at Illegitimateness Unlawfulness, baseness of Birth, spuriousness.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Spuriousness,..2. Illegitimacy; the state of being bastard, or not of legitimate birth; as the spuriousness of issue.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun]
outrageoustya1425
enormitya1538
extravagancy1651
spuriousness1674
anormality1836
abnormality1850
abnormalism1851
1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 67 By enabling my stomach to master the food, whilst it destroy'd all inclinations to Spuriousness.
3. The state or quality of being spurious, false, or counterfeit:
a. Of documents, writings, etc.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > faking of documents > [noun] > lack of authenticity
unauthenticness1657
spuriousness1678
ungenuineness1848
inauthenticity1883
unauthenticity1890
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 321 Several other Books..being unquestionably distinct from the Pæmander, and no signs of Spuriousness or Bastardy discovered in them.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) Introd. 20 The Spuriousness of Phalaris's Epistles.
1723 D. Waterland 2nd Vindic. Christ's Divinity 124 Some considerable Testimonies in Ruinart's select Acts of Martyrs, which tho' not so certainly genuine..have yet no certain Mark of Spuriousness.
1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ i. 15 The internal marks of spuriousness and imposture which these compositions betray.
1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. vi. 91 [He] has been particularly anxious to assert the spuriousness of some writings assigned to the King.
1884 Manch. Examiner 4 Nov. 5/1 The wretched article from the Paris paper, which carries the brand of spuriousness on its face.
b. In other contexts.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [noun] > something false or forged > quality of
counterfeitness1557
adulteration1609
supposititiousness1638
apocryphalness1641
adulterateness1655
forgery1665
falsity1678
spuriousness1818
spuriosity1863
1818 J. Bentham Parl. Reform Catech. 65 The necessity of secrecy, for securing freedom, and preventing spuriousness of suffrage.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 278 The pierres de Goa..were, at least generally, factitious bezoars of this kind; and their spuriousness was capable of proof.
1878 E. Dowden Stud. Lit. 40 In his romantic poems there is..a note of spuriousness.
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