Apocryphal Definition

ə-pŏkrə-fəl
adjective
Of questionable authorship or authenticity.
American Heritage
Of doubtful authorship or authenticity.
Webster's New World
Erroneous; fictitious.
American Heritage
Not genuine; spurious; counterfeit.
Webster's New World
Of or having to do with the Apocrypha.
American Heritage
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Origin of Apocryphal

  • From Late Latin apocryphus (“secret, not approved for public reading”), from Ancient Greek ἀπόκρυφος (apokryphos, “hidden, obscure”, thus “(books) of unknown authorship”), from ἀπό (apo, “from”) + κρύπτω (kruptō, “I hide”). Properly plural (the singular would be apocryphon), but commonly treated as a collective singular. “Apocryphal” meaning “of doubtful authenticity” is first attested in English in 1590.

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Apocryphal Sentence Examples

  • But it is also probable that these apocryphal versions are based on a genuine original.

  • This is the most important of all the apocryphal writings for the history of religious thought.

  • It is used to designate an apocryphal writing entitled in the older MSS.

  • And the Greek Psalter, though it contains one apocryphal psalm at the close, is essentially the same as the Hebrew; there is nothing to suggest that the Greek was first translated from a less complete Psalter and afterwards extended to agree with the extant Hebrew.

  • The legends which speak of the Cid as accompanying this monarch in his expeditions to France and Italy must be rejected as purely apocryphal.

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